District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania February 5, 1889 (The Mary Riley v. Three Thousand Railroad Ties)

Rutler, J.

October 7th last, J. W. T. Lee shipped on the Mary Riley a cargo of railroad ties, consigned to his own order at Philadelphia. The vessel arrived in due course, and was ordered by Lee’s agent to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s wharf. On going there she found a number of vessels ahead, unloading in order of arrival,-and was thus detained in getting rid of her cargo.