Legal Opinion · Concurrence
The Queen
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 21, 1910No. Nos. 1,850, 1,851Published
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California.
1Concurrence
WOUVFRTON, District Judge.
I concur in the opinion of Judge ROSS, rendered herein, and will state briefly my reasons therefor. The question in the case is one purely of construction, and relates to the federal statutes regulating pilotage; the controversy being whether pilotage upon libelee’s steamships in entering and departing from the Bay of San Francisco, is controlled bjr federal or state regulations.
The statute of California (section 2468, Pol. Code) provides that all foreign vessels and all vessels from a foreign port or bound thereto, and all vessels sailing under a register between…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Olsen v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Spraigue v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Huus v. New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1901
- Joslyn v. NickersonU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1880