FORTH (TRINITY HOUSE OF LEITH) PILOTAGE AUTHORITY v. LORD ADVOCATE AND OTHERS.

(1946) 80 Ll.L.Rep. 96

COURT OF SESSION.

Before Lord Sorn.

Pilots - Benefit fund instituted by pursuers - Confirmation by Board of Trade of by-laws providing for recruitment of fund by deduction from pilots' earnings, etc. - Several attempts made by pursuers to draw up further by-laws for regulation of payments from fund to pilots and dependants - Objections made on each occasion by certain groups of pilots - Refusal by Board of Trade to confirm - Potential beneficiaries without benefits - Multiplepoinding action brought by pursuers asking that project be abandoned and fund dispersed - Case adjourned to enable further by-laws to be formulated and submitted to confirming authority.