Legal Opinion

Leech v. Louisiana

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 17, 1909No. 152PublishedCited by 9 opinions

ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP LOÚISIANA. The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes

This is an information charging the plaintiff in error with piloting a foreign vessel from the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans, the port to which she Was bound, he not being a duly qualified pilot under the laws of Louisiana. He was convicted after a trial, and the Supreme Court of the State pronounced the ■judgment correct. 119 Louisiana, 522. By demurrer, motion to quash and motion in arrest of judgment he raised the objection that the power of Louisiana was not exclusive, and that a license from the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Harbor of Natchez, Mississippi, was a sufficient…

2Cited by9 opinions

  1. Interport Pilots Agency, Inc. v. SammisCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1994
  2. Interport Pilots Agency, Inc. v. SammisCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1994
  3. Kenneth H. Warner v. Vernon D. Dunlap, Chairman and Member of the Rhode Island State Pilotage CommissionCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1976
  4. Warner v. ReplingerDistrict Court, D. Rhode Island · 1975
  5. Sweatt v. Florida Board of Pilot CommissionersDistrict Court, M.D. Florida · 1991

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