Esso Standard Oil Co. v. Crescent River Port Pilots Ass'n

On Rehearing

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

We granted a rehearing in this case in order to give further thought to the respective duties and jurisdictions of these two groups of pilots. After much deliberation we have decided that the district judge who heard this case arrived at the correct solution of the problem, and we are so impressed by the reasons which he gave for his judgment that we have decided to adopt them as our own.

“This is a suit for declaratory judgment,” he wrote, “and injunctive relief brought by Esso Standard Oil Company against Crescent River Port Pilots Association and New Orleans…