La Brecque Co. v. Edward J. Barton Lighterage Co.

McAvoy, J.:

Plaintiff is the owner of a bulkhead wharf or dock in the Passaic river adjoining its factory known as the Newark Zinc Works.

It employed defendant, a lighterage concern, to carry certain drums of methyl-acetate from Eagle Dock, Brooklyn, to plaintiff’s wharf or bulkhead. The boat was ordered by plaintiff to come to plaintiff’s dock in the Passaic river at Harrison, N. J., con*402signed to plaintiff. That dock was the bulkhead on one side of the river. At the time the contract was made plaintiff’s manager, with whom it was made and who had charge of consignments, gave his assurance ’…