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PAGAN TORRES v. NEGRON RAMOS

No. 77-1453.

578 F.2d 11 (1978)

Jose Raul PAGAN TORRES, etc., et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Pedro NEGRON RAMOS, etc., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 27, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oswald Evan Perkins, Santurce, P.R., for plaintiffs, appellants.

Rafael Perez-Bachs, San Juan, P.R., with whom McConnell, Valdes, Kelley, Sifre, Griggs & Ruiz-Suria, San Juan, P.R., were on brief, for defendant, appellee, Ponce Mining Company.

Americo Serra, Rio Piedros, P.R., Asst. Sol. Gen., with whom Hector A. Colon Cruz, Sol. Gen., San Juan, P.R., was on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges, MOORE, Senior Circuit Judge.

MOORE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal an order of a three-judge district court which, after receiving the response of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico to a certified question concerning Puerto Rican sub-surface mineral rights, quashed the convocation of the court and dismissed plaintiffs' complaint as insubstantial.

The action was commenced by several farmers from the municipalities of Adjuntas and Utuado, Puerto Rico, who objected to the actions taken by...

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