BREWER PUERTO RICO, INCORPORATED v. CORCHADO

Nos. 5903-5905.

303 F.2d 654 (1962)

C. BREWER PUERTO RICO, INCORPORATED (Substituted for Fajardo Sugar Company), Respondent, Appellant, v. Florencio CORCHADO et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees. CENTRAL COLOSO, INC., Respondent, Appellant, v. Guillermo GABRIEL et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees. CENTRAL SOLLER, INC., Respondent, Appellant, v. Ramon COLLAZO et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Decided June 11, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gonzalo Sifre and Sifre & Ruiz-Suria, San Juan, P. R., on briefs for appellants in Nos. 5903 and 5904.

F. M. Susoni, San Juan, P. R., on brief for appellant in No. 5905.

Vincente Geigel Polanco, San Juan, P. R., on brief for appellees in Nos. 5903-5905.

Before MAGRUDER, ALDRICH and SMITH, Circuit Judges.


MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge.

These three cases involve the same point and were heard together. They relate to claims by the plaintiff employees for the statutory overtime compensation.

Since the amount in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs, exceeds $5,000, this court has jurisdiction of the appeals. However, on such appeals we are admonished that we should not reverse the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico in a matter of local law unless that court's determination...

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