Legal Opinion
People of Puerto Rico v. Eastern Sugar Associates
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 28, 1946No. 4112PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from an order of the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico dismissing a petition to condemn approximately 3,100 acres of land situated on the Island of Vieques owned by the appellee, Eastern Sugar Associates, subject to a mortgage held by the appellee, National City Bank of New York, on the ground that the petition fails “to state a public use or purpose for which private property may be acquired by eminent domain.”
By Act Ño. 26 approved April 12, 1941, (Laws of Puerto Rico 1941, p. 388 et seq.) called the “Land Law of Puerto Rico,” the…
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