Pedro Acosta-marrero, Defendant, Appellant, v. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Plaintiff, Appellee, 275 F.2d 294 (1st Cir. 1960)

Only questions of local law are presented for our consideration by this appeal under Title 28 U.S.C. § 1293 from an order of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico summarily denying a petition addressed to it for review of a judgment adverse to the appellant and others entered by the Superior Court of Puerto Rico, San Juan Part, in a mortgage foreclosure proceeding. The Superior Court wrote a full opinion in the case finding the facts, about which there is no dispute, and applying to those facts principles of local law which impress us as "intelligible", and neither "inescapably wrong," "patently erroneous" nor "plainly inconsistent with established principles of the local law". De Castro v. Board of Commissioners, 1944, 322 U.S. 451, 454, 455, 64 S. Ct. 1121, 1123, 88 L. Ed. 1384. Under these circumstances on the authority of International Basic Economy Corp. v. Blanco-Lugo, 1 Cir., 1959, 271 F.2d 437, certiorari denied 80 S. Ct. 404:

Judgment will be entered affirming the order of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.