whElI). the batielwas hoisted with the span so guyed :that the barrel, raised by the. power of the horse above the rail, would be drawn by the same'power out of the,hands of the men on the rail and across thEl deck. 'fhe duty thus neglected arose upon navigable ,water, out of the employment of the vessel as an instrument of commerce. The case is similar: in principle to the case of The Kate Oann, decided by this court and ,affirmed by the circuit court, 9 FED. REP. 241; 8 FED. REP. 719. The libelant was guilty of no negligence. He was standing where he had the right to stand in the discharge of his official duty. If. he could be chargeable with knowledge that the barrel was being hoisted from the pier at that place, he' had the right to assume that it would not be pulled across the deck where he was, and no notice to ,the oon· trary was given him. There must, therefore, be a decree in favor of the libelant,with order of referenoe to ascertain the amount.
THE FRANOISCO GARGUILO.-
(District Court, E. D. New Y01'Je. 'December,?, 1882.\ PILoTAGE-TENDER 011' SERVICEB--8TA'!'E STATUTE.
A pilot who brought a vessel into the port of New York froml!ea beca.me entitled unders. state statute to her to sea when she next left ti\e port, by himself or one his boat's company. The master of. ",essel ammged with the pilot to meet him at a. certain time and place. whence they were to go on board the vessel together. The pilot preSented hbuself at the time and place , appointed; the master did not appear, but went on board and to s6ft with. ont a. pilot. Held, that this was sufllciellt tender of his services on the, part of the pilot, without his presentin e; himself on board the, vessel. to the vessel with liability for the damages resulting from the non-performance of the ob. ligation created by the statute.
':InAdmifalty. " , Butler, Stillman ct Hubbard, for libelant. " Good1'ich, Deady ct Platt, fQrcll\imantJ '. > BENEDICT, D. J. This case comes before the court upon exceptions to the libel. The facts averred in the libel are in substance these: The libelant, John E. Johnson, being a regular licensed pilot, was employed to pilot the bark Francisco Garguilo from sea to the port (If New York, and in fact did bring that vessel in from sea. When by R. D. & Wyllys Benedict.
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the vessel was about to leave the port the next time, the master of the vessel arranged with the libelant to meet him at a certain time and place in the city of New York, whence, according to the arrangement, the pilot and the master were to go together on board the bark, and the bark was then to be taken to sea by the libelant. In pursuance of this arrangement, the libelant presented himself at the time and place appointed. The master did not then appear, but went on board his vessel and to sea without a pilot. The statute of the state of New York provides that "any pilot bringing in'a vessel from sea shall, by himself or one of his boat's company, be entitled to pilot her to sea when she next leaves the pott." By virtue of this statute the libelant, upon the facts stated; becameen.titled to take this vessel to sea the voyage described' in the libel. An obligation to employ and pay the libelant for thae sarviee wRscreated by the statute. Upon due tender of the service by the libelant and refusal.by the master to accept the saine, a right of action for damages resulting accrued to the libelant. This right of action arising out of the non-performance of a quasi contract of pilotage is maritime in character, and may be enforced in admiralty. case is similar, iQ t4ese respects, to cases decided by the supreme court of the United States. Steam-ship Go. v. Joliffe, 2 Wall. 450; Etc parte McNiel, .18 Wall. 242. In order to make a proper tender of his services as outward pilot for the vessel, it was sufficient for the pilot to present himself at time and place appointed by the master to meet the pilot and take him on board. Under the circumstances stated in the libel it was not necessary. for the pilot to present himself on board the vessel in order to make the tender of service complete. Nor is the rendition of some. setvice by the pilot on board of the vessel necessary to charge the vessel with liability for the damages resulting irom the non-performance of the obligation created by the statute. There must be a decree for the libelant upon the exceptions, with leave to claimant to answer on payment of costs.
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See The Alzena, 14 FED. REP. ].75, and note.
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NAT. BANK OF NEW YORK, and another, Security.(Circuit Oourt, N. D. GefJII'gia. 1882.)
REMOVAL OF CAUSE-CONTROVERSY MUST lJE SEPARABLE.
One of two defendants jointly sued in a state court cannot remove the cause into the federal court on the ground of diversity of citizenship between himself and plaintiff without shoWing that the controv.ersy is separable.
Motion· to Remand. Reuben Arnold and E. N. Boyles, for plaintiff. Mynatt d; HowelZ, for defel1d'ants. McCAY, D. J. The Continental National Bank of New York sued out an attachment in the state courts against Folsom, and gave Wallace ds security on the attachment bond. . This is a suit brought on the 'bond by Folsom 'against the bank and Wallace in the state court. The bank, as a citizen of the state of New York, filed a petition for the removal of the cause to this court, setting up that in the cause there is no controversy whatever between it and Folsom; that, Wallace,a citizen of Georgia, is merely a nominal party, and that Folsom is a citizen of Georgia. The court refused to pass the order for removal. The petitioner, nevertheless, filed papers in this court, and now Folsom sues to remand the cause to the state court. The latest' case on this subject that has been reported is Hyde v. Ruble, 104U. S. 408. That was a suit on what was alleged to be a partnership contract of bailment. Certain of the alleged partners were of another state, not only from plaintiff, but from Ruble, the resident defendant, and they had filed a plea that they were not partners, and that the contract had been performed. They moved the removal of the cause. The court (the chief justice delivering the opinion) decided that the second clause of section 639 of the Revised Statutes is repealed l;>y the act of 1875. The court further decided that under the second clause of the second section of the act of 1875, to make the controversy removable in a case where all the parties on one side were not citizens of a different state from the parties on the other side, must exist in the suit a separate and distinct cause of action, in respect to which all the necessary parties on one side are (Jitizens of different states from those on the other. ' *Reported by W. B. Hill, Esq" of the Macon, Ga., bar
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