Commonwealth v. Ricketson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The defendant was indicted and tried in the municipal court, at the December term thereof, 1842, for undertaking to pilot the barque Empress, a foreign vessel, into the port of Boston, on the 3d of April 1842, m violation of the provisions of the Rev. Sts. c. 32. It was in evidence at the trial, that said barque was a foreign vessel, of 345 tons burthen, and had been chartered in New York, by B. P. Winslow, to come to Boston and thence to go to London.
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The defendant was indicted and tried in the municipal court, at the December term thereof, 1842, for undertaking to pilot the barque Empress, a foreign vessel, into the port of Boston, on the 3d of April 1842, m violation of the provisions of the Rev. Sts. c. 32. It was in evidence at the trial, that said barque was a foreign vessel, of 345 tons burthen, and had been chartered in New York, by B. P. Winslow, to come to Boston and thence to go to London. Three commissioned pilots for the port of Boston testified, that they hailed said barque, on thé night of the 3d of said April, about four…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was made known March 25th 1844.
Shaw, C. J.
An indictment was found, in the municipal court, against the defendant, alleged to be an inhabitant of New Bedford, for a violation of the pilot laws regulating the pilotage of foreign vessels into the port of Boston. The general statement, to be gathered from the averments in the indictment, is, that the defendant, not being commissioned as a pilot for the port of Boston, did, in April 1842, pilot a foreign vessel, called the barque Empress, into Boston harbor, although certain regular Boston pilots offered their'services…
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