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PHILIPPINE SUGAR & c. CO. v. PHIL. ISLANDS

No. 189.

247 U.S. 385 (1918)

38 S.Ct. 513

62 L.Ed. 1177

PHILIPPINE SUGAR ESTATES DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LIMITED, v. GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 3, 1918.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Antonio M. Opisso for plaintiff in error and appellant.

Mr. Edward S. Bailey, with whom Mr. Samuel T. Ansell was on the brief, for defendant in error and appellee.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

When Spain ceded the Philippine Islands to the United States large tracts of agricultural lands were owned by the great religious orders. For political reasons it was deemed advisable that our Government should acquire the Friar lands and sell them to tenants in small holdings on easy terms. Lengthy negotiations conducted to that end by the Civil Governor were concluded in 1903. Most of the lands owned by the...

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