Benedicto v. West India & Panama Telegraph Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United Slates for the District of Porto Rico. Suit by the West India & Panama Telegraph Company and another against Jose E. Benedicto and others, composing the Public Service Commission of Porto. Rico, and another, for injunction, restraining enforcement of an order for reduction of foreign cable rates. Decree for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, District Judge.
We see no occasion for delaying the decision of this case by reason of the suggestion that certiorari proceedings are pending in the case of the People of Porto Rico et al. v. American Railroad Company of Porto Rico (decided by this court December 4, 1918) 254 Fed. 369, — C. C. A. —, as there would seem to be no sense in which that case could bear upon this, whichever way it may be decided, and that is so because, if it should be held by the Supreme Court that interstate commerce jurisdiction goes to the local affairs of Porto Rico, it would not be decisive of the…
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