COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. OF PUERTO RICO v. NEGRON TORRES

No. 5215.

255 F.2d 149 (1958)

The COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF PUERTO RICO, Inc., Defendant, Appellant, v. Hiram NEGRON TORRES, Plaintiff, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 7, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carmen B. Hernandez, San Juan, P. R., James R. Beverley, San Juan, P. R., on the brief, for appellant.

Appellee submitted on the record appendix without brief or oral argument, by leave of Court.

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


WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff-appellee, a citizen of Puerto Rico, brought an action in the Superior Tribunal, Mayaguez Section, sounding in tort for negligence against the defendant-appellant, a Delaware corporation doing business in Puerto Rico, and Crown Beverages, Inc., a Puerto Rican corporation, to recover damages for personal injuries which he alleged he sustained as a result of his discovery of the putrified...

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