Ex parte Hagar

Decided January 1, 1882

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1882

This was a hearing on petition for a writ of prohibition brought to restrain proceeding in the district court of the district of Delaware,' sitting in admiralty, from further action in a suiti pending for the recovery of half pilotage claimed to be due under the statutory regulations of Delaware.

2 counsel of record

Relies on Ex parte McNiel · Samuel Hobart v. Andrew Drogan

Decided 1882

¶1Same.

¶2This was a hearing on petition for a writ of prohibition brought to restrain proceeding in the district court of the district of Delaware,' sitting in admiralty, from further action in a suiti pending for the recovery of half pilotage claimed to be due under the statutory regulations of Delaware.

¶3H. G. Ward and R. C: McMurtrie, for petition.

¶4George Gray, Edward G. Bradford, Henry Flanders, and Thomas F. Bayard, contra.

¶5Mr. Chief Justice Waite

¶6delivered the opinion of the court denying the writ.

¶7Claims for pilotage fees are within the jurisdiction of the admiralty, and such being the case under the decision just rendered Ex parte Gordon, the district court can properly hear and decide the matters in dispute, and prohibition will be denied.

¶8Cases cited: Ex parte McNeil, 13 Wall. 236; Hobart v. Drogan, 10 Pet. 108.