Robinson v. The Idlewild

lili OWN, District Judge.

These libels were filed to recover wharf-age charges against the above-named steamships. while they lay at the libelants’ wharf off the foot of Court street, Brooklyn, in the early part of 1893.

As regards the Havana, I find, that the receipt given on March 24,1893, to her owners, upon the payment of $375 “in full for wharf-age to April 17, 1893, or date of sale,” must be construed in favor of the defendants, and as payment of wharfage up to April 17th, although the sale took place on April 2d; so that there remains unpaid upon the Havana five days’ wharfage only,…