Société Anonyme des Sucreries de St. Jean v. Polanco

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

Polanco, a planter, made, in 1912, an agreement with the defendant appellant, which operates the Santa Juana sugar mill, to till 250 acres of sugar cane for the harvests of 1913 to 1917, inclusive, and to deliver the product to the defendant for grinding, receiving either 6 per cent, of the ground-out sugar, or, under a so-called special benefit clause, as high a rate as should be paid by the defendant to any of its other planters. This clause is referred to by the Supreme Court of Porto Rico as being “like a favored nation clause.” In September, 1917, Polanco sued in…