Henley v. Brooklyn Ice Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
This was an appeal from a decree of the district court, dismissing the libel [Case No. 6,363], in a suit in personam, in admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
WAITE, Circuit Justice.
In the summer of 1874, the respondent was engaged in the business of shipping ice from Dresden, Maine, to Brooklyn; New York, for sale to consumers. It had no storehouses in Brooklyn, but occupied a wharf in Wallabout Basin, for the purpose of unloading vessels. Its course of business was to send out from three to six vessels a week from Dresden, according to the demand in Brooklyn, and, upon the arrival of a vessel at Brooklyn, as sales were made to consumers, unload into carts upon the dock for delivery. All the work of unloading was done between sunrise and sunset,…
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