State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Jones
Supreme Court of Florida
The information in the nature of a quo warranto in this ease was filed at the June term, A. D. 1876, the Hon. Win. Archer Cocke being then Attorney-General, and Messrs. Jones and Mallory appearing for the relator. The respondent, Jones, filed both a general demurrer and a plea on the fifth day of August, 1876. The court disposed of the demurrer at the June term, 1877. The other facts necessary to a full understanding of the opinion on the demurrer are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Westcott
The demurrer to the information being overruled, the defendant, in response to the allegation that he has not served a regular apprenticeship of two years on some pilot-boat on the bar of Pensacola, “ pleads that he was employed upon and performed his duties for the term of two years *314on the pilot-boat Clarence Barkly, Ho. 4, receiving instructions from the pilots on board relative to the harbor, the bar, depth of water and courses, and the management of vessels ; that he was also employed upon the bar by Benjamin E. Stearns, a licensed pilot upon a licensed pilot-boat called the Ella for the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State ex rel. Meek v. GleasonSupreme Court of Florida · 1868
3Cited by10 opinions
- State v. BryanSupreme Court of Florida · 1905
- State Ex Rel. Davis v. LoveSupreme Court of Florida · 1930
- Crawford v. BradfordSupreme Court of Florida · 1887
- State ex rel. Merrill v. GerowSupreme Court of Florida · 1920
- Davidson v. State ex rel. BanksSupreme Court of Florida · 1884
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