Bonet v. South Porto Rico Sugar Co.

BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit in the nature of an action at law brought by the South Porto Rico Sugar Company against Rafael Sancho Bonet, Treasurer of Puerto Rico, to recover the sum of $36,714.62, the same being the amount of income taxes for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1919, and claimed to have been illegally assessed against the plaintiff and paid under protest. The action was brought in the District Court of San Juan. In that court the plaintiff was allowed to recover the sum of $7,137.20, with interest at 6 per cent, from September 5, 1930. From this judgment the…