PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO v. SHELL CO.

No. 3168.

86 F.2d 577 (1936)

PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO v. SHELL CO. (P. R.), LIMITED, et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

November 20, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. Rigby, of Washington, D. C. (B. Fernandez Garcia, Atty. Gen., of Puerto Rico, and Nathan R. Margold, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the People.

William D. Whitney, of New York City (Jaime Sifre, Jr., of San Juan, P. R., and Hugh A. Fulton and Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, all of New York City, on the brief), for appellee Shell Co. (P. R.) Limited.

James R. Beverley, of San Juan, P. R. (Jose Lopez Baralt and Ryder Patten, both of San Juan, P. R., on the brief), for appellees Texas Co. (P. R.), Inc., and others.

Oscar B. Frazer, of New York City (Hartzell, Kelley & Hartzell, of San Juan, P. R., on the brief), for appellees Pyramid Products, Inc., and Ernest Yates, and others.

Before BINGHAM, WILSON, and MORTON, Circuit Judges.


BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico of December 20, 1935, dismissing an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of San Juan, where the cause was dismissed for want of jurisdiction.

It appears that on May 28, 1934, the prosecuting attorney for the District of San Juan filed in the court for that District an information against certain named corporations engaged in the distribution and sale of gasoline...

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