MARIO MERCADO E HIJOS v. LLUBERAS PASARELL

No. 5015.

225 F.2d 715 (1955)

MARIO MERCADO E HIJOS, Defendant, Appellant, v. Manuel Francisco LLUBERAS PASARELL et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

September 12, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pedro M. Porrata, Ponce, Puerto Rico, Benjamin Ortiz, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Charles R. Cuprill, Ponce, Puerto Rico, on motion, for appellant.

Leopoldo Tormes Garcia, Ponce, Puerto Rico, on original motion to dismiss or affirm, for appellees.

Before MAGRUDER, Chief Judge, and WOODBURY and HARTIGAN, Circuit Judges.


WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

In June, 1951, the Superior Court of Puerto Rico, Ponce Section, adjudged that the appellant had been in possession of a farm illegally and "in bad faith" from June 2, 1937 to November 3, 1945, and ordered payment of damages to the appellee as the rightful owner of the farm in the amount of $41,345.56 representing the estimated value of "the fruits the said land yielded or might have yielded during that period." On appeal the Supreme Court...

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