P. R. Railway, Light & Power Co. v. District Court of Humacao

Mb. Justice De Jesús

delivered the opinion of the court.

The People of Puerto Eico, represented by Eexford Q-. Tugwell, Governor of Puerto Eico, Sergio Cuevas Busta-mante, Commissioner of the Interior, and George A. Malcolm, Attorney General, instituted in the lower court a condemnation proceeding against the petitioner herein, P. E. Eailway, Light & Power Co. Two causes of action were set up in its complaint. In the first it alleged that on January 4, 1928, the defendant obtained a franchise numbered 591, entitled: “An ordinance granting to the Porto Eico Eailway, Light & Power Company…