Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. United States

In this suit plaintiff asserts a claim for wharfage in tbe amount of $44,750 against vessels owned by the United States which had been bareboat chartered to the East Coast Shipping Company, Inc., hereinafter referred to as the Shipping Company, and placed by that Company at a wharf owned by plaintiff at Jacksonville, Florida. The plaintiff had no ownership interest in the Shipping Company, but did own certain waterfront docks and mooring facilities at Jacksonville, Florida, where the Shipping Company moored the vessels in question.

*749The case is now before us on defendant’s amended motion to…