Empire Warehouse Co. v. The Brooklyn

The libels in the above two cases were filed to recover for “wharfage” at different times during the months of January, February, and March, 1890, while the above-named lighters were discharging at libelant’s dock, at the Waverly stores, Brooklyn. The cases have been submitted upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears, in addition to the above, that both lighters were chartered by the claimants to A. & P. Roberts & Co., of Philadelphia, for carrying structural iron to said dock, and that the wharfage claimed in the libels was for the time during which they were engaged in…