Veitia v. Fortuna Estates
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Porto Rico; Peter J. Hamilton, Judge. Suit in equity by the Fortuna Estates against Rafaela Castillo Veitia and others. From an order granting a preliminary injunction, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
DODGE, District Judge.
This is a controversy about water rights. Fortuna Estates, a New York corporation, owning and operating four sugar-producing estates in Porto Rico supplied from the Jacaguas river, filed this bill against the appellants (hereinafter called defendants) April 7, 1916. The defendants named therein are eight in number. Seven of them, according to the bill, were variously interested in another sugar-producing estate called “Boca Chica,” also supplied from the same river, but from a point higher up thereon. The remaining defendant is described as the attorney in fact of two…
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