1 Died in Washington, D. C., January 5, 1914. 2 Appointed by the President on February 24, 1914. Appointment confirmed by the PREFACE Pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 13 of March 5, 1912, entitled "An Act to place under the supervision and control of the Supreme Court of Porto Rico the publication of the opinions of said court and making an appropriation therefor," this volume is published in English under the official title of Volume 20 of the Porto Rico Reports and contains all the cases decided by the Supreme Court of Porto Rico from January 1 to June 14, 1914. The same cases are published in Spanish in a separate volume bearing the official title of Volume 20 of the Decisiones de Puerto Rico. The first two official volumes of the decisions of the Supreme Court were published in Spanish only under the title, "Sentencias del Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico." Volumes 3, 4, 5, and 6 were published in both Spanish and English on alternate pages under the title, "Porto Rico Reports," and the first edition of these having become exhausted, a second edition has been published with volumes 3 and 4 of the English bound in one volume, volumes 3 and 4 of the Spanish in another, and so on as to volumes 5 and 6. From volume 7 on the English and Spanish have been published in separate editions, each covering the same period. From volume 14 to volume 19, inclusive, one volume a year has been published in each language, but in view of the fact that the volumes have become somewhat unwieldy, it has been decided to reduce the volumes to 750 pages, approximately, and this explains why this volume contains only the cases decided up to June 14 of this year. J. HERNÁNDEZ USERA, SAN JUAN, P. R., July 14, 1914. Secretary-Reporter. V |