State ex rel. Raymond v. Voorhies

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

The relator charges that in a suit brought before the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, under Section 2705 of the Revised Statutes, the district judge has exceeded the bounds of his jurisdiction, and that he should be prohibited from all cognizance of the cause, which is one of which a court of admiralty alone has jurisdiction,

*500Tlie district judge returns that his court has jurisdiction.

The section requires any vessel inward or outward bound, to or from the port of New Orleans, to employ as a pilot a duly licensed branch…