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ANTONIO ROIG SUCRS. S. EN C. v. SUGAR BOARD OF PUERTO RICO

Nos. 4959, 4960, 4972.

235 F.2d 347 (1956)

ANTONIO ROIG SUCRS. S. EN C. et al., Petitioners, Appellants, v. The SUGAR BOARD OF PUERTO RICO, Defendant, Appellee. EASTERN SUGAR ASSOCIATES, (a Trust), Petitioners, Appellants, v. The SUGAR BOARD OF PUERTO RICO. EASTERN SUGAR ASSOCIATES (a Trust), v. COLONOS DE CANA DE SANTA JUANA, Inc., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

July 17, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francisco Castro-Amy, San Juan, P. R., with whom James R. Beverley and R. Castro-Fernandez, San Juan, P. R., were on brief, for Antonio Roig Sucrs. S. en C. et al., appellants.

E. T. Fiddler, San Juan, P. R., with whom Jose G. Gonzalez, Tomas I. Nido and Carlos J. Faure, San Juan, P. R., were on brief, for Eastern Sugar Associates (A Trust), appellant.

Abe Fortas, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., of Puerto Rico, J. B. Fernández Badillo, Asst. Atty. Gen., of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, with whom Jose Trias Monge, Atty. Gen. of Puerto Rico, and Arnold, Fortas & Porter, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for The Sugar Board of Puerto Rico, appellee.

Colonos de Cana de Santa Juana, Inc., appellee, submitted on brief of The Sugar Board of Puerto Rico by leave of Court.

Before MAGRUDER, Chief Judge, and MARIS and WOODBURY, Circuit Judges.

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

These appeals under Title 28 U.S.C. § 1293 from final decisions of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico present questions of the validity under the Constitution of the United States of certain provisions of the Sugar Act of Puerto Rico. Act No. 426 of May 13, 1951; Laws of Puerto Rico, 1951, page 1138. In addition Eastern Sugar Associates in its appeal No. 4960 alleges error in that the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico deprived it of a forum...

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