Bartlett v. The Craigendoran

This is an action to recover wharfage for the use of a wharf in the city of Brooklyn. The rates of wharfage chargeable for tho use of wharves in the city of Brooklyn and the city of New York are regulated by a statute of the state, enacted in 1877. The provision in the laws of the state now, and at the time in the libel mentioned, in *88force, is as follows (chapter 315, Laws 1877:) “It shall be lawful to charge and receive, within the cities of New York and Brooklyn and Long Island City, wharfage and dockage at the following rates, namely: * * * From any vessel of two hundred tons burden and…