SANCHO v. HUMACAO SHIPPING CORPORATION

No. 3506.

108 F.2d 157 (1939)

SANCHO, Treasurer of Puerto Rico, v. HUMACAO SHIPPING CORPORATION.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 22, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Cattron Rigby, of Washington, D. C. (B. Fernandez Garcia, of San Juan, P. R., and Nathan R. Margold, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.

E. T. Fiddler, of San Juan, P. R. (Fiddler, Cordova & McConnell, of San Juan, P. R., on the brief), for appellee.

Before WILSON and MAGRUDER, Circuit Judges, and McLELLAN, District Judge.


MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge.

Humacao Shipping Corporation filed in the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico a petition for a declaratory judgment, 28 U.S.C. § 400, 28 U.S.C. A. § 400, that certain taxes assessed against it by the Treasurer of Puerto Rico under authority of the Political Code, Section 297, were assessed in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, Const.U.S.C.A., and Section 2 of the Organic Act of the Territory, 48 U.S.C. §...

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