H. Christiansen & Sons, Inc. v. City of Duluth

Thomas Gallagher, Justice.

Action to recover damages alleged to have been caused to plaintiff’s dock and business by defendant through the latter’s maintenance of its dock and wharf upon land owned by it and in water adjacent to plaintiff’s dock in the Duluth-Superior harbor.

Plaintiff sets forth two canses of action in its complaint. In both of them it alleged that it is a corporation “engaged in the purchase, sale and transportation of fish and other merchandise” and in the “transportation by water of freight * * * for hire. * * * with fishing boats,” and that it operated freight and other…