Commercial Investment Co. v. Mayaguez Light & Power Co.

Rodey, Judge,

delivered the following opinion:

The issue before us is on a rule against the respondent to show cause why he should not be punished as for a contempt of court for an alleged wrongful interference with property in the hands of a receiver. The facts out of which the matter arises are about as follows:

In the latter part of March, 1908, the Commercial Investment Company of Porto Rico filed its bill of complaint against the Mayaguez Light & Power Company, praying for the foreclosure of a mortgage which the former held upon the electric light and ice plants of the latter in said…