E. C. Taylor Co. v. N. Y. & Cuba Mail SS. Co.

The plaintiff, the Taylor Co., engaged in the towing business, made a contract with the Equipment Co, by which the Taylor Company was to tow from Indian Village, on Bayou Plaquemines, and unload, at its own expense, upon the wharves of New Orleans, 500 tons of steel rail.

When the shipment arrived at New Orleans there was no wharfroom found upon which to unload the rails. There was then lying along the wharf below New Orleans at Chalmette Slips the Steamship “Lake Inglenook” upon which the rails were to be eventually loaded for export.

The ship was represented by Dudley Thomas, agent of the…