The Golden Rod
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maine. Suit in admiralty by the Islesboro, Castine & Belfast Steamboat Company against the steamer Golden Rod; the Eastern Bay Steamboat Company, claimant. Decree for respondent, and libelant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
The appellant filed a libel in admiralty in the District Court for the District of Maine to collect wharfage from *25the steamer Golden Rod, owned by the appellee. The Golden Rod for three summer seasons had been making use of a wharf at Brooks-ville, constructed and owned in part by one Tapley and in part by the libelant. The libelant had been using the wharf for its own steamer or steamers, and there is no basis for claiming that the wharf was one which any steamer was free to use irrespective of the consent of its owners; so that the Golden Rod must have been chargeable…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Canada-Atlantic & Plant S. S. Co. v. FlandersCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1906
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- Graham Mfg. Co. v. Davy-Pocahontas Coal Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1916