BAYAMON THOM McAN, INC. v. MIRANDA

Nos. 7104, 7105.

409 F.2d 968 (1969)

BAYAMON THOM McAN, INC., et al., Defendants, Appellants, v. Eileen Josefina MIRANDA et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees. KIDDIELANE FLORIDA CORPORATION, Defendant, Appellant, v. Eileen Josefina MIRANDA et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Decided April 22, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Estrella, San Juan, P. R., with whom Beverley, Rodriguez, Estrella & Pesquera, San Juan, P. R., was on brief, for appellants in No. 7104.

Antonio M. Bird, San Juan, P. R., for appellant in No. 7105.

Harvey B. Nachman, San Juan, P. R., with whom Salvador Antonetti Zequeira and Nachman, Feldstein, Laffitte & Smith, San Juan, P. R., were on brief, for appellees.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from judgments on plaintiffs' verdicts in a negligence action in the district of Puerto Rico, with jurisdiction being based on 48 U.S.C. § 863, all of the defendant corporations being non-domiciliaries of Puerto Rico. The minor plaintiff, Eileen Josefina Miranda Skerret, recovered $100,000 from defendants-appellants for damages resulting from a fall from a hobbyhorse in 1963, when she was a fifteen month old infant. Her...

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