Legal Opinion · Dissent

Vélez v. Llavina

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

Decided June 26, 1912No. 778Published

Appeal from the District Court of Mayagüez. The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Dissent

DISSENTING OPINION OF

MR. JUSTICE MACLEARY.

This record having been first assigned to me, as ponente, an opinion was prepared and submitted to the full bench to be adopted as the opinion of the court. The tribunal not concurring, another justice was assigned to the duty of writing the majority opinion, and I will accordingly use my own opinion as the basis of a dissenting one.

However, it can merely serve as the warp, some new matter being necessarily introduced as the woof to make the web complete.

In this case, then, not being able to agree with my colleagues in their views of the law governing…

2Cases cited52 opinions

  1. United States v. GoldenbergSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  2. Lau Ow Bew v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  3. Hennessey v. TaylorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
  4. Sloane v. Southern California Railway Co.California Supreme Court · 1896
  5. Purcell v. St. Paul City Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1892

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