Case Name: Jose E. Benedicto, as Treasurer of Porto Rico, v. Porto Rican American Tobacco Company of Porto Rico
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1924-01-14
Citations: 263 U.S. 688
Docket Number: No. 153
Parties: Jose E. Benedicto, as Treasurer of Porto Rico, v. Porto Rican American Tobacco Company of Porto Rico.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 263
Pages: 688–689

Head Matter:
No. 153.
Jose E. Benedicto, as Treasurer of Porto Rico, v. Porto Rican American Tobacco Company of Porto Rico.
Appeal from the District Court of the United Statés for Porto Rico.
Argued January 11, 1924.
Decided January 14, 1924.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Reversed with the direction to dismiss upon the authority of: (1) Irwin v. Wright, 258 U. S. 219, 222; Gorham Mfg. Co. v. Wendell, 261 U. S. 1, 5; (2) United States v. Hamburg-American Co., 239 U. S. 466, 475; Board of Public Utility Commissioners v. Compañia General, 249 U. S. 425, 426-427; Brownlow v. Schwartz, 261 U. S. 216, 217-218.
Mr, Grant T. Trent, with whom Mr. F. Granville Munson was on the brief, for appellant. Mr. H. Lewis Brown, with whom Mr. Branch P. Kerfoot and Mr. A. PL. Burroughs were on the brief, for appellee.