Mercado E Hijos v. Commins

Rule 39 (b) of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, effective September 20,1940, authorizes the summary-dismissal or affirmance of judgments appealed from the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico involving only questions of local law, unless it appears from the record and appellant’s required “statement on appeal” that the judgment appealed from “is ‘inescapably wrong’ or ‘patently erroneous’ (Sancho Bonet v. Texas Co., 308 U. S. 463 (1940)).” In thjs, as in the companion case, DeCastro v. Board of Comm’rs of San Juan, ante, p. 451, we granted certiorari on a petition raising important…