Saint Jean Sugar Co. v. Figuerola
Saint Jean Sugar Co. v. Figuerola
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
In a proceeding based on an alleged cane-grinding contract and instituted by the Central Saint Jean to restrain the delivery of certain cane to a competing mill and to compel the specific performance of the alleged grinding contract, the court below, holding that in order to justify the. relief sought complainant must show a clear right thereto, found that the' essential averments of the petition had not been satisfactorily established by the evidence and dismissed the suit;
■ Appellant insists that the court improperly regarded the contract relied on as having been rescinded, and that .the judgment is contrary to the 'evidence.'
The law regulating “Contracts of Advances for Agricultural Purposes and Grinding of Cane, and for other Purposes,” gives to the central various privileges and advantages not enjoyed by the purchaser under an ordinary contract of purchase and sale. Grinding contracts, if reduced to writing, are eligible to record, whether evidenced by public or private document, are by the express terms of the statute susceptible of enforcement by judicial mandate and must contain “the terms and conditions stipulated by the parties.”
. The embodiment of s-uch terms and conditions in a written memorandum is a very simple matter, and we agree with the. trial judge that when the central applies for ah order restraining the sale and delivery of cane to a rival mill and compelling the specific enforcement of an alleged oral agreement for- the grinding of cane, it must show a clear right to : suchextraordinary relief. . • ' '
In the case at bar, after a careful examination of the
Affirmed.
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