The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council of the Royal Burgh and City of Aberdeen, for Themselves, and as Representing the Community of the Said Royal Burgh and City, Appellants. The University of Aberdeen; and William Duguid Geddes, Professor of Greek; John Black, Professor of Humanity; Frederick Fuller, Professor of Mathematics; Alexander Bain, Professor of Logic; William Martin, Professor of Moral Philosophy; David Thomson, Professor of Natural Philosophy; and James Nicol, Professor of Natural History, Being the Whole Professors in the Faculty of Arts in the Said University of Aberdeen; John Duguid Milne and George Walker, Advocates in Aberdeen, the Executors of the Late John Cruickshank, LL. D., Sometime Professor of Mathematics in Marischal College, Aberdeen; and the Reverend William Robinson Pirie, D.D., Professor of Divinity and Church History in the Said University of Aberdeen, Respondents. The Respondents' Case
