Trujillo & Mercado v. Succession of Rodriguez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from Supreme Court of Porto Rico. Suit in equity by Trujillo & Mercado against the succession of Bias Rodriguez. Decree for defendant, and complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, District Judge.
In this case the plaintiffs ask for judgment and a perpetual injunction, and we have to consider the water rights of owners whose lands border upon the waters of the Guayanilla river, in Porto Rico.
The questions raised by the record do not relate to any supposed natural rights of riparian owners, but, with the single exception of a question of right by user, to rights based upon government concessions or franchises.
The questions of law and fact have been passed upon by the two local courts of Porto Rico, and while those courts were not created in the same way that the…
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