R. Ribas Y Hijo v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
• APPEAL FROM .THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF PORTO RICO. This action was brought against the United States by J. Ribas y Hijo, a Spanish corporation, to recover the sum of ten thousand dollars as the value of the use of a certain merchant vessel taken by the United States in the Port of Ponce, Porto Rico, when that city was captured by the United States Army and Navy on July 28, 1898. The vessel was kept and used by the Quartermaster’s…
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• APPEAL FROM .THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF PORTO RICO. This action was brought against the United States by J. Ribas y Hijo, a Spanish corporation, to recover the sum of ten thousand dollars as the value of the use of a certain merchant vessel taken by the United States in the Port of Ponce, Porto Rico, when that city was captured by the United States Army and Navy on July 28, 1898. The vessel was kept and used by the Quartermaster’s Department of the Army until some time in April, 1899, when the War Department ordered its return to the owner, if all claim for…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Harlan,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered, the opinion of the court.
1. By the 35th section of the act of Congress of April 12, 1900, c. 191, temporarily providing revenues and civil government for Porto Rico, it was declared that “writs of error and appeals from the final decisions of the Supreme Court of Porto Rico and the District Court of the United States shall be allowed and may be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States in the same manner and under the same regulations and in the same cases as from the Supreme Courts of the Territories of the United…
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