Evansville & Bowling Green Packet Co. v. Chero Cola Bottling Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a “wharfboat”—a structure used to transfer cargo between ships and docks and ships and other ships, and capable of being towed—was not a “vessel”
• floating wharfboat secured to the shore with cables and connected to onshore utilities “was not practically capable of being used as a means of transportation”
• floating wharfboat secured to the shore with cables and connected to onshore utilities \was not practically capable of being used as a means of transportation\
• “connections with the water, electric light, and telephone systems of the city evidence a permanent location”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).