MINIMUM WAGE BOARD OF PUERTO RICO v. LUCE & CO.

No. 3989.

155 F.2d 983 (1946)

MINIMUM WAGE BOARD OF PUERTO RICO v. LUCE & CO., S. EN C.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

May 22, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul A. Sweeney, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (John F. Sonnett, Asst. Atty. Gen., David L. Kreeger, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Warner Gardner, Sol., Department of Interior, Irwin W. Silverman, Chief Counsel, Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Department of Interior, and Shirley Ecker Boskey, Atty., Department of Interior, all of Washington, D. C., and Ismael Soldevila, General Counsel, Minimum Wage Board of Puerto Rico, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the brief), for appellant.

John T. Noonan, of Boston, Mass. (William J. Hession, of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellee.

Before MAGRUDER, MAHONEY and WOODBURY, Circuit Judges.


MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge.

The appeal in the instant case is taken from that portion of a judgment of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, entered on September 23, 1943, which set aside decree No. 2 issued on February 27, 1943, by the Minimum Wage Board of Puerto Rico. After full consideration we have concluded that the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico was not "inescapably wrong" in holding, as a matter of statutory construction,...

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