B. Priestley & Co. v. Cunard S. S. Co.

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

Appellee, as consignee of a cargo of silk shipped from Liverpool to New York on the steamship Eraneonia, sent its truck driver to obtain delivery at appellant’s piers along Eleventh avenue, New York City. There the goods were delivered at a chute at the second doorway facing on the avenue. The driver backed his truck to the platform and stayed with it while the cargo was being.loaded by a man employed by the driver. Neither had any connection with the appellant. There was present a dock watchman, employed by the appellant to watch the delivery of the cargo. After the…