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The Owners of an Elephant v Alexander Deas and the Other Farmers of it. [1680] 3 Brn 378 (1 December 1680)
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Subject_1 DECISIONS of the LORDS OF COUNCIL AND SESSION, reported by SIR JOHN LAUDER OF FOUNTAINHALL Subject_2 SUMMER SESSION.
The Owners of an Elephant v. Alexander Deas and the Other Farmers of it
Date: 1 December 1680
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The owners of the Elephant which was brought hither from England to be shown, having charged Alexander Deas and the other fanners of it, on their contract, to pay 400 pounds sterling for the use of it several months, they presented a bill of suspension on sundry breaches and contraventions of the said contract; such as, they did not show it at the precise hours appointed, and took advantage by showing it privately, for which they have not accounted; and did not show all it might do, viz. its drinking, &c. But it could not drink every time it was shown.
