Virden v. Board of Pilot Commissioners
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Bill for Injunction to Restrain the Pilot Commissioners From Enforcing a Penalty.—The complainant was a pilot duly licensed by the defendant, a corporation created under an Act entitled “An Act regulating Pilots and Pilotage of and in the bay and river Delaware,” passed April 5, 1881. The injunction was sought to restrain the defendant from suspension of his complainant’s license and forfeiture of his pilotage fees received for piloting a vessel which, it was alleged, had…
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Bill for Injunction to Restrain the Pilot Commissioners From Enforcing a Penalty.—The complainant was a pilot duly licensed by the defendant, a corporation created under an Act entitled “An Act regulating Pilots and Pilotage of and in the bay and river Delaware,” passed April 5, 1881. The injunction was sought to restrain the defendant from suspension of his complainant’s license and forfeiture of his pilotage fees received for piloting a vessel which, it was alleged, had been boarded by him in violation of rules of the Board, adopted in September 1895, the text of which is set forth in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Spruance, Chancellor ad litem:—
This is an Injunction Bill brought by the complainant, Walter L. Virden, to restrain the defendants, The Board of Pilot Commissioners, from enforcing certain rules adopted by the said Board, prohibiting pilots, holding licenses from this State, from boarding vessels otherwise than from licensed plot boats, except as provided by said rules.
The Act entitled “An Act Regulating Pilots and Pilotage of and in the Bay and River Delaware,” passed by the Legislature of this State, April 5, 1881,established and incorporated a Board of Pilot Commissioners consisting of…
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