UNITED STATES v. SAN GERONIMO DEVELOPMENT CO.

Nos. 4074, 4075.

154 F.2d 78 (1946)

UNITED STATES v. SAN GERONIMO DEVELOPMENT CO., Inc., et al. SAN GERONIMO DEVELOPMENT CO., Inc., v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 4, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger P. Marquis, J. Edward Williams, and Vernon L. Wilkinson, Department of Justice, all of Washington, D. C., Philip F. Herrick, U. S. Atty., District of Puerto Rico, of San Juan, P. R., for United States.

Ryder Patten, of San Juan, P. R., for appellee San Geronimo Development Co., Inc.

Gabriel de la Haba, of San Juan, P. R., for appellees de la Haba and Mera.

H. S. McConnell, of San Juan, P. R., for appellee Pedro A. Pizá.

Before MAGRUDER, MAHONEY and WOODBURY, Circuit Judges.


MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge.

These are cross-appeals, in which the petition filed by the United States in the court below is somewhat of an unfamiliar hybrid, and the substantive question upon which the decision turns is a special and non-recurring one as to which there are no precedents to indicate the answer.

In No. 4074, the United States claims that during the war emergency the Navy Department is entitled to the free use and occupation of a certain tract of...

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