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DE CASTRO v. BOARD OF COMM'RS.

No. 349.

322 U.S. 451 (1944)

DE CASTRO v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF SAN JUAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 29, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William Cattron Rigby, with whom Messrs. Fred W. Llewellyn, Gabriel de la Haba, and Hugh R. Francis were on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. F. Fernandez Cuyar for respondent.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case the petition urged as a ground for certiorari, which moved us to grant it, that the decision of the Court of Appeals below, as in a companion case, Mario Mercado E. Hijos v. Commins, post, p. 465, "practically closes the doors of the appellate court below" to appeals which the statutes of the United States allow to Puerto Rican litigants in the insular courts and "discriminates...

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