Edwards v. Steamship Panama

The libel in this cause was filed on the 27th of March, 1861, and, after the formal allegations, avers that the libellant, on the 17th of March, 1861, and thereafter, was a duly licensed pilot, for the Columbia Elver bar, according to the laws of Oregon, and attached to the pilot-boat California, on said bar. That on the said 17th day of March, the libellant boarded the said steamship Panama “just outside” said bar, and offered his services as pilot to conduct said steamer over said bar to the port of Astoria, in' Oregon. That the said steamship at the time was bound in, and the said…