Bellatty v. Curtis

The respondents are lumber merchants, with a wharf in Boston, where it is customary for vessels, arriving with cargoes of lumber consigned to them, to be unloaded in turn in the order of their arrival, according to the usage of the port. The schooner City of Ellsworth, of which the libelant was master, arrived in Boston, July 10, 1888, with a cargo of lumber on board, consigned to the respondents. The next morning the master reported to the consignees, and, as their wharf was then fully occupied in unloading other vessels, which had arrived before the City of Ellsworth, he was told he must…