The Mary Riley v. Three Thousand Railroad Ties
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Admiralty. Libel by Jolin Taylor,' master of the schooner Mary Riley, against 3,000 railroad ties lately laden in said schooner, for freight and demurrage.
1Opinion of the CourtRutler, J.
October 7th last, J. W. T. Lee shipped on the Mary Riley a cargo of railroad ties, consigned to his own order at Philadelphia. The vessel arrived in due course, and was ordered by Lee’s agent to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s wharf. On going there she found a number of vessels ahead, unloading in order of arrival,-and was thus detained in getting rid of her cargo. The master complained repeatedly of this, and after some days Lee’s agent, on being informed by the master that the ties were all white oak, sent the vessel to the Reading Railroad Company’s wharf, where such ties were wanted.…
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