Contractors to rebuild & support Union Wharf v. The Steamer J. H. Starin

The facts of this case are largely set forth in the judgment rendered by the District Court. The question is one of law, as to what rights were conferred on the libellants by the statute law of the state of Connecticut, in respect to wharfage, so called, on goods in the situation of those involved in the present case. The decision of the highest court of the state of Connecticut on the very question must be accepted as the proper interpretation of such statute law. In 1887 the case of Union Wharf Co. v. Hemingway, 12 Conn., 293, an action of assumpsit for the wharfage of goods, brought by the…