Porto Rico Sugar Co. v. Lorenzo

Citations

• 222 U.S. 481
• 32 S. Ct. 133
• 56 L. Ed. 277
• 1912 U.S. LEXIS 2200

Syllabus

<p>A contract will be read in the light of well known conditions; a contract made in Porto Rico to grind, sugar cane will be presumed to be a contract to grind in the grinding season.</p> <p>What the grinding season is in a particular locality may be established by parol evidence.</p> <p>Nothing in the contract under consideration in this case takes it out of the ordinary rule that performance of an absolute undertaking is not excused by such occurrences as breaking of machinery, etc.</p> <p>5 Porto Rico Fed. Rep. 96, affirmed.</p>