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