Jones v. Delaware, L. & W. R. Co.

(after stating tho facts as above).

Tho scope or legal content of the “pier end statute” has been fully set forth in The Amanda Moore, 257 F. 405, 168 C. C. A. 445, and a little more recently in The Daniel B. Flannery (C. C. A.) 282 F. 545. So far as the meaning of the statute is concerned, we have nothing to add to these eases; but this litigation raises tho point (novel so far as wo know) whether the City Charter can regulate, or practical*392ly penalize, the, place necessarily occupied by a dredge working for the Unite'd States in aid, of the sovereign’s prerogative of regulating and aiding…