In the House of Lords. David and Alexander Allan, Merchants in Glasgow, Appellants. The Provost and Bailies of Rutherglen, and other Persons, Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Burgh of Rutherglen, Respondents. The Respondents' Case.

Folio, 4 pp. Bifolium. On laid paper watermarked with the date 1800. Worn and aged, with small closed tear to second leaf, but with text clear and complete. Ownership inscription on first page of 'Thos. Adam Esqr | Alnwick Northumberland'. The respondents' case, signed in type by William Alexander and Robert Montgomery, is laid out in detail in small print over three pages. Having moved the route of the footpath from Glasgow to Rutherglen ('over what is called the Green of Glasgow, to the Place where the Highway from Glasgow to Rutherglen crosses the River Clyde'), the Allans began to construct 'an Arch thrown over the Footpath sixty Feet in Length, five Feet wide, and six Feet high', the consequence of which, 'it was obvious, would have been to injure the Footpath materially, by rendering it, below the Arch, a low, dark, dirty, and dangerous Passage in the Vicinity of a populous City'. The arch was successfully opposed (see 'Glasgow Past and Present' by 'Senex', 1884). No copy on COPAC.