Central Barge Co. v. City of Minneapolis

NORDBYE, Chief Judge.

The above cause came before the Court for trial without a jury.

This is a proceeding in admiralty and arises out of the breaking away of a *277barge owned by the libelant from respondent’s wharf on the Mississippi River at Minneapolis. Respondent is a municipality and charges a fee for its services in the unloading and the storage of the cargoes delivered at the wharf. The wharf is concrete and from above its outline forms a trapezoid with its base and two sides — extending north and south — along the shore line of the river. These walls, are used for the mooring of vessels.…