The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-08-09
DOCK SITUATION
At ACUTE STAGE
BUSINESS MEN PETITION CORPORA.
TioN COMMISSION TO GRANT
RELIEF.
lies UP RIVER TRADE
COAT DEALERS UNABLE TO LAY IN
STOCK FOR WINTER USE
CITY ALSO FILES SIMILAR
PETITION.

Their patience worn to a FRAGILE
/ by continued delays and their bust
/ ness interests seriously threatened by
lack of usual docking facilities, five
coal handling firms on yesterday.
through their attorney, Judge Bever-
/ ley L Crump, llled petition with
/ she state Corporation Commission
asking that an order he entered re-
4 quiring the owners OF the Richmond
/ dock TO make such repairs thereto az
shall make 1t available for use.
! The petitioners are S. a. Ellison &
/ Company, the Crump 4 West Coal
I Company. A. S. Lee & Sons. r.. L.
/ Murphy n Son. and Nelson 4 Ladd
! AT the same time. acting on be-
hall OF the corporation OF the city
! Of Richmond Assistant City Attor-
ney Colonel George Wayne Anderson
filed similar petition.
| The petitioners set out that the
! Richmond Dock Company was char
tered ny an act of Legislature on
February 10. 1916: that by sale OF
stock, with public aid literally ex-
tended By the state and city, 1t was
constructed and opened to public use
as an inland basin. known az Rich
mond Dock, which has since that
time been Il notable factor in the
water terminal facilities and in the
commercial progress Of the city.
Trigg Company Held Liable.
The petition quotes the contract
/ assumed by the William r. Trigg
Company, In which tho company
agreed to keep the basin in repair
and says
Petitioners bring TO the attention
Of the commission that the bond
holders committee. as owners of the
dock property in succession to the
William K. Trigg Company. are UNI
der the same burdens and liabilities
| imposed upon the said Trigg Conn
pany, in connection with the said
dock. Therefore, the present owners
are required by statute to maintain
thu dock in proper condition and to
Keep II open for public use. In ad-
ditien to this obligation resulting from
the charter of the Richmond Dock
Company and from tho act of Feb
ruary 1901, the covenants and con-
traetuaI obligations, assumed by the
ITrIgg Company IN the deed from the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Com
pany, follow the property In the hands
Of the present owners as successors
in title to the Trlgs Company"
On July Z, 1911, one Of the petit
! tioning firms states that IL was told
by the gatokeeper that owing to tina
condition OF one OF the gates it was
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