Case ID: f_62/html/0752-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PARDEE, Circuit Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE TIVERTON. MELBURN et al. v. LOUISIANA CONST. & IMP. CO.
    (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    May 22, 1894.)
    No. 220.
    Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
    This was a lihel by the Louisiana Construction & Improvement Company against the Tiverton (William Melburn and others, claimants), for wharfage. The district court rendered a decree for libelant. Claimants appealed.
    Henry P. Dart, for appellants.
    J. R. Beckwith, for appellee.
    
      Before PARDEE and McCORMICK, Circuit Judges, and LOCKE, District Judge.
   PARDEE, Circuit Judge.

Tliis appeal raises only the question of whether wharfage dues, under the contract of the Louisiana Construction & Improvement Company with the city of New Orleans, of date May 23, 1891, should he charged and collected upon the gross or the net tonnage of the vessels using the wharf. For the reasons given in the case of Coul v. Improvement Co. (just decided) 62 Fed. 749, this case is ruled the same way, and the decree appealed from is affirmed.