Ruddiman v. Scow Platform

Citations

• 38 F. 158
• 1889 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 49

Syllabus

<p>Wharfage — Lien—Floating Scow-Platform.</p> <p>A floating structure, designed to be moored along-side a wharf, so that carts containing refuse to be dumped into boats, can be driven over it from the wharf, is not a vessel within the meaning of the maritime law, and no lien for wharfage attaches to it under that law</p>