Cayey Sugar Co. v. Registrar of Guayama
Cayey Sugar Co. v. Registrar of Guayama
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of court.
On November 3, Í911, Lucía Llera y Vázquez, widow of Gaudier, executed an instrument before Notary Vicente Fe-rrer Rodriguez Ortiz creating a servitude in favor of the Cayey Sugar Company, a corporation, and upon its presentation in the Registry of Property of Guayama the registrar refused to admit the same to record for the reason stated in the following decision:
“Admission to record of the foregoing document is denied because by it Lucía Llera authorizes the Cayey Sugar Company to utilize the servitude which it creates for public use and benefit and this authorization is exclusively the province of the Executive Council, which alone can grant that kind of franchise. A cautionary notice is entered, etc.”
From that decision the Cayey Sugar Company appealed to this court.
Such are the conditions governing the servitude created by Lucía Llera in favor of the Cayey Sugar Company and we do not see any failure thereby to recognize the power conferred by section 32 of the Organic Act of Porto Bico upon the Executive Council in providing that all grants of franchises, rights and privileges or concessions of a public or quasi-public nature shall be.made by the Executive Council, with the approval, of the Governor.
In the lawful exercise of her right of ownership of a tract of land, Lucía Llera creates thereon a gratuitous servitude of right of way for a period of twenty years in favor of the Cayey Sugar Company in order that it may construct a railroad for the transportation of agricultural products and materials for its factory, with the right to continue using the said servitude for itself or for public use and benefit for an indefinite time after the expiration of the said term
For the foregoing reasons the decision appealed from is reversed and it is ordered that the instrument be recorded.
Reversed.
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