State Road Department v. South Puerto Rico Sugar Co.

D. C. SMITH, Circuit Judge.

This cause has come on for trial before the court on the petition filed herein by the State Road Department of Florida and the answer to such petition filed by the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company, a corporation, on the issue framed by such pleadings on the necessity of the petitioner acquiring a fee simple absolute title to the land of such defendant. The petitioner filed a declaration of taking and a date was set for hearing thereon.

The State Road Department of Florida, as petitioner, and the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company, as defendant, are the only parties…