Peterson v. Great Neck Dock Co.

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This is an action brought by the owner of the canal boat May E. Coffey to recover of the owners of the steamboat dock at Great Neck for injuries done to libelant’s boat, while engaged in discharging a cargo of coal at the dock, hy getting upon some rocks that lay in the dock. The Great Neck dock is a single wharf, built out from a rocky shore, for the use of a steamboat which lands there daily. At the end of the wharf there is good water. On the south side, some 70 feet from the end of the dock, '(here is a derrick used for discharging coal from canal boats which…