Legal Opinion

Winslow v. Prince

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 15, 1850PublishedCited by 23 opinions

In these cases, which were argued by T. D. Eliot, for the plaintiffs, and H. G. O. Colby, for the defendants, the facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court, which was delivered at the October term, 1852.

1Opinion of the CourtShaw, C. J.

These are actions brought by the two plaintiffs, severally, as Vineyard pilots, for pilotage fees, alleged by them to be due to them, respectively, for offering their services to the two vessels described, bound through the Vineyard sound, and over Nantucket shoals to Boston bay. The first case is that of the barque Portland, bound from Sag-Harbor, where she was purchased, to Boston, and the offer was made by the plaintiff Winslow in the harbor of Newport. The other was that of the barque Guiñare, bound through the *369Vineyard sound, over Nantucket shoals, the offer having been made, whilst the…

2Cited by23 opinions

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  3. People v. RodriguezAppellate Court of Illinois · 2008
  4. Swinnerton v. . Columbian Insurance Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1867
  5. Mauran v. Insurance Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1868

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