Corning v. Greene
New York Supreme Court
HIS action was brought in the name of the president of the Albany Pier proprietors, to recover wharfage claimed by the proprietors under the provisions of “ An act authorizing the construction of a basin in the city of Albany, at the termination of the Brie and Champlain canals,”.passed April 5, 1823. The complaint alleged that the pier proprietors were an association or company of more than seven persons, jointly or in common interested in the right of action for which the…
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HIS action was brought in the name of the president of the Albany Pier proprietors, to recover wharfage claimed by the proprietors under the provisions of “ An act authorizing the construction of a basin in the city of Albany, at the termination of the Brie and Champlain canals,”.passed April 5, 1823. The complaint alleged that the pier proprietors were an association or company of more than seven persons, jointly or in common interested in the right of action for which the suit was brought, and that the plaintiff was their president. That the defendants, during the years 1850 and 1851, were…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Wright, J.
Prior to 1798, the corporation of the city of Albany conveyed to sundry persons the franchise of dockage and wharfage in the harbor and port of that city, opposite to and adjoining what were known and called the middle or inner docks. In the conveyances of the franchise the corporation reserved the right of regulating by ordinance the price to be paid for wharfage. In December, 1820, an ordinance was adopted, fixing the rates of wharfage for vessels of five tons burthen or under, by the season, $1.06 per ton; and over five tons burthen, twenty-seven cents per ton ; by…
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