HEIRS OF ELIAS GODREAU & CO. v. GUERRERO

Nos. 5902, 5913.

296 F.2d 326 (1961)

HEIRS OF ELIAS GODREAU & CO., Defendants, Appellants, v. Miguel Florencio Godreau GUERRERO et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees. Maximina GODREAU, Widow of Colon, et al., Defendants, Appellants, v. Gudelia Colon ORTIZ, Plaintiff, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

November 30, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leopoldo Tormes, Ponce, P. R., and Arturo Ortiz Toro, San Juan, P. R., for appellants.

Raul Matos, Ponce, P. R., for appellees in No. 5902.

Eduardo Cuchi Coll, Santurce, P. R., for appellee in No. 5913.

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


PER CURIAM.

In these cases counsel for unsuccessful defendants in the Superior Court of Puerto Rico not only petitioned the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico for review but also appealed to that court. The Supreme Court denied the petitions for review and on appeals this court summarily affirmed, it being obvious that only questions of local law were involved and that by no stretch of the imagination could we say that the result reached below was either "inescapably wrong...

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