Semidey v. Central Aguirre Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Porto Rico; Hamilton, Judge. Suit by Francisco Semidey and others against the Central Aguirre Company and others. Decree for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, District Judge.
The questions raised in this case grow out of a controversy in respect to a lease of a sugar plantation at Guayama, Porto .Rico, known as Hacienda Teresa, “together with whatsoever is covered by and appertains to said lands, and is annexed to and remaining thereon, with their entrances and exits, uses, rights and servitudes,” and among the rights and servitudes covered by this clause were certain water rights running with the land by virtue of an irrigation concession granted by the local Spanish authorities in 1861, and confirmed by the government of Spain in 1868.
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