Legal Opinion
Vazquez-Corales v. Sea-Land Service, Inc.
District Court, D. Puerto Rico
Decided April 17, 1997No. Civil No. 95-2457 (PG)PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
PEREZ-GIMENEZ, District Judge.
Before the Court is Defendant Sea-Land Services, Inc.’s (“Sea-Land”), Motion to Dismiss Based on Spoliation of Evidence.
I. Background
On November 14, 1995, Mr. Domingo Lugo Moreno was killed when the truck he was driving fell over the side of a curved ramp into a gorge some fifty feet deep below. The tractor truck (the “caculo” in Spanish) belonged to Mr. Lugo Moreno, while the trailer (consisting of the refrigerated container and chassis) he was hauling was the property of defendant Sea-Land.
Mr. Lugo Moreno’s survivors — his wife, mother, four…
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