MERCADO RIERA v. MERCADO RIERA

Nos. 4256, 4264.

167 F.2d 207 (1948)

MERCADO RIERA v. MERCADO RIERA et al. SAME et al. v. MERCADO RIERA.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 13, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pedro M. Porrata and Benjamin Ortiz, both of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Edward J. McGratty, Jr., and Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl, all of New York City, Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, for Mario Mercado Riera, Executor.

José A. Poventud, of Ponce, Puerto Rico, for Adrian and Margarita Mercado Riera.

Celestino Iriarte, F. Fernandez Cuyar and H. Gonzalez Blanes, all of San Juan, Puerto Rico, for Maria-Louisa Mercado Riera.

Before MAGRUDER, MAHONEY and WOODBURY, Circuit Judges.


WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

These are cross-appeals from a final decision of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in proceedings on the final account of Mario Mercado Riera as testamentary executor of his deceased father's estate. It is the accounting proceedings to which we referred incidentally as "raging in the insular courts" in our opinion on another phase of this bitter and long drawn out controversy between three of the decedent's four children, heirs and equal residuary...

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