Morciglio v. South Porto Rico Sugar Co.

HaMiltoN, Judge,

delivered the following opinion:

Tbe complaint in this case filed in the local court seeks to enforce against the charter of vessels the right to pilotage fees. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is one of the two local pilots at Guaniea and that he claims under the Law of Ports and Regulations of Porto Rico, and that the defendant and its predecessor have had ships coming to Guaniea loaded with cane since May 21, 1917, to May 31, 1919, whose pilotage fees would amount to $15,128,50, of which plaintiff claims half as being one of the two pilots for that port. To this a…