SAMMARTANO v. PALMAS DEL MAR PROPERTIES, INC.

No. 98-1409.

161 F.3d 96 (1998)

Florence SAMMARTANO and Richard Uhl, Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. PALMAS DEL MAR PROPERTIES, INC., Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 3, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gabriel I. Peñagarícano for appellants.

David W. Román, with whom Brown & Ubarri was on brief, for appellee.

Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, CYR, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.


LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Florence Sammartano brought a negligence claim against Palmas del Mar Properties, Inc., the owner of the Puerto Rico resort where she was staying, after she fell while crossing a road from the resort parking lot to the building where her room was located. Co-plaintiff Richard Uhl, her companion, brought a derivative claim for "mental and moral damages." Applying Puerto Rico law, the district court granted the defendant's motion for...

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