Luckenbach Steamship Co. v. Denney

This is a suit to enjoin the department of public works from enforcing against respondent the provisions of the state law regulating wharfingers and warehousemen.

In its complaint, respondent alleged its organization as a Delaware corporation engaged in intercoastal and interstate commerce, carrying freight between the Pacific coast and the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It has leased, and for some years has operated, a pier in Seattle known as Pier I, for the purpose of discharging and receiving freight from its vessels. No vessels, other than its own, berth at or use that dock. No freight was…