Angleró v. Municipality of Fajardo

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

■ ■ Angleró, an independent contractor, brought an action for damages, against tbe municipality of Fajardo.

*42The auditor and treasurer of the municipality after final acceptance of the work, retained for a time two checks, which they should have delivered to the contractor. Plaintiff’s-first cause of action was based on this wrongful act. The district judge held, however, that the damages claimed by plaintiff were not recoverable.

Plaintiff had borrowed money in order to perform the work. The damages which he now seeks .to recover from the municipality arose in…