Francis v. FlinnFrancis v. Flinn
after stating the case as above reported, delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill does not state what the publications were of which the plaintiff complains, or what the divers suits instigated by the defendants were other than those mentioned, in which charges were made as to towing vessels through the pass without pilots, and as to certain persons not being branch pilots, or contracting not to serve as such. Nor does it state any of’the other. “ various and divers ways ” in which he is injured by the defendants.
The whole gist of the complaint is that the defendants do not treat the plaintiff as having a right to use his vessel as a pilot-boat, and have publicly so stated, and that some of the parties mentioned have been subjected to suits for their acts in piloting. But if this be so, the plaintiff has a full remedy for his alleged wrongs in the courts of law. They furnish no ground for the interposition of a court of equity. If the plaintiff has a right to pilot vessels with his boat through the pass and is wrongfully interfered with by the defendants or others,
"We think the court below should have sustained the demurrer of the defendants for want of equity in the bill. The decree must, therefore, be
Reversed, and the cause remcmded, with instructions to dismiss the bill.