New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. Frederick Leyland & Co.

The plaintiff is an interstate carrier, with an ocean terminal at East Boston, where it delivers export freight to, and receives import freight from, the defendant, a foreign steamship corporation. During 1911 and 1912 the defendant was using one of the plaintiff’s piers under a written agreement which provided, among other things, that “delivery of freight by said *445Railroad Company to said Steamship Company shall be considered to have been effected when the same has been unloaded from the cars into the sheds on the pier or piers occupied in whole or in part by the said steamship company.” The…