Ereño v. Porto Rico

Pokey, Judge,

delivered the following opinion:

In this case, the parties, by proper stipulation, waived a jury and tried the cause before the court. Much of the evidence had been previously taken by deposition, and that, together with what was taken orally on the recent trial, the pleadings in the ease, and the exhibits, raises all the issues of law and fact now ■ to be passed upon by the court.

The action is an ordinary suit in assumpsit to recover $2,4 6 G alleged to be due the plaintiff from the government of the island of Porto Pico on account of the fact that the plaintiff built a…