New York Dock Ry. v. Pennsylvania R. Co.

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, appellee, is a common carrier operating a line of railroad whose eastern terminus physically is at the New Jersey waterfront opposite the city of New York but actually—by use of ear floats and force of statute—at stations across the river on the waterfront of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and other boroughs within the commercial area known as the port of New York. Of the eomplainants-appellants, some are common carriers and others are not; but all áre engaged in one way or another—principally by trucks— in exchanging freight or…