Plazuela Sugar Co. v. Alvarez

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

This case is ruled by Plazuela Sugar Co. v. Pastoriza, 245 Fed. 115, 157 C. C. A. 411. It comes here on appeal from the Supreme Court of Porto Rico, reversing the district court of Arecibo, and holding that the appellant sugar company had no easement or other legal right, however námed, to maintain and operate the railroad tracks over the appellee’s land; that the tracks were placed and remained on the locus under a merely revocable oral license.

The rule that the decision of that court on a question of local law should be affirmed, unless clearly erroneous, applies.…