Wilson v. Gray
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against the owners of a vessel for pilotage. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff, to this court on appeal, on agreed facts, the material parts of which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLord, J.
The decision in this case depends upon the true construction of the St. of 1873, c. 284, § 1, which is in these words: “ No vessel regularly employed in the coasting trade, declining the services of a pilot, shall be obliged to pay compulsory pilotage into or out of any port in this Commonwealth.”
The bark Frank Lambirth of Boston was built at Bath, Maine, in September 1876, is registered at Boston, has always sailed under a register, and not under a coasting license. From Bath to Calais, Maine, she went in ballast, and there took in a cargo of deals for Liverpool, England. From Liverpool she…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Tilley v. FarrowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1817
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