Hecht v. Boston Wharf Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three actions of contract or tort by different plaintiffs against the Boston Wharf Company, a corporation carrying on the business of a warehouseman, for damage to wool belonging to the several plaintiffs and stored in the sheds of the defendant adjoining the Fort Point Channel in the part of Boston called South Boston by reason of sea water entering the sheds during a high tide on December 26, 1909. Writs dated December 21, 1910. The cases were referred to Charles E.…
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Three actions of contract or tort by different plaintiffs against the Boston Wharf Company, a corporation carrying on the business of a warehouseman, for damage to wool belonging to the several plaintiffs and stored in the sheds of the defendant adjoining the Fort Point Channel in the part of Boston called South Boston by reason of sea water entering the sheds during a high tide on December 26, 1909. Writs dated December 21, 1910. The cases were referred to Charles E. Shattuek, Esquire, as auditor, who made a finding in favor of the plaintiffs. Later the cases were tried together before…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
These are actions of contract wherein the plaintiffs seek to recover damages caused by the wetting with salt water of wool severally stored by them with the defendant, a warehouseman, on the water front in Boston. The direct means of the injury was the tide of December 26, 1909, which rose to such a height as to come into the sheds of the defendant, where the wool of the plaintiffs was stored, to a depth of several inches.
No question now is made as to the fact of damage. The main *402contention of the defendant is that this tide was of such an extraordinary character as to amount to an “act of…
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