Riera v. Superior Court of Puerto Rico

Mr. Justice Saldaña

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question raised in this proceeding is whether the Reasonable Rents Act (17 L.P.R.A. § 181 et seq.) is applicable to the lease of a vacant urban lot which the lessee uses exclusively for the parking and sale of automobiles and in which no “premises or building” is located. We believe that the trial court erred in holding that the lease contract is comprised within the special norms established by that law.

At the end of 1950 and early part of 1951, the Mayagiiez Motor Corporation leased two adjacent lots in the city of Mayagiiez, one…