Robinson v. The C. Vanderbilt

THOMAS, District Judge.

The boats of the Schuyler Steam Towboat Company, operating between New York and Albany, since 1880, during the closed season of navigation, had laid up at the docks of Jeremiah P. Robinson, at the foot of Court street, in Brooklyn. Mr. Robinson died in August, 1880, and Jeremiah P. Robinson,' his son, and others, his executors, appear as libelants, to enforce alleged liens for wharfage, as hereafter stated. The claimant, the Holland Trust Company, is the trustee of a mortgage dated December 24, 1890, and duly recorded December 26, Í 890, covering the boats in question,…