Rivera v. San Juan Racing Ass'n

As a prologue to the consideration of the present appeal it is fitting to quote here from Judgment No. 119 of June 10, 1929 of the Supreme Court of Spain (189 Jur. Civ. 762), to which we shall refer hereinafter: “Whereas because of the industrial and mercantile development and the expansion and complexity of modern living the juridical relations do not seem to fit squarely within the pattern and nature of the contracts which produce them if such contracts are to be classified, in any. event, pursuant to the definitions of the very legal bodies and in line with the former’s typical…