El Banco Popular De Economias Y Prestamos v. Wilcox
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL- FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT. ' This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversing a decision of the United States District Court for Porto Rico, which required the appellee to pay the appellant $9,631.92, the amount due on certain mortgages of real estate in Porto Rico, the unpaid principal of which amounted to $6,300.00, and, in default of such payment, directed a foreclosure.
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APPEAL- FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT. ' This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reversing a decision of the United States District Court for Porto Rico, which required the appellee to pay the appellant $9,631.92, the amount due on certain mortgages of real estate in Porto Rico, the unpaid principal of which amounted to $6,300.00, and, in default of such payment, directed a foreclosure. The plaintiff bank was a Porto Rico corporation, and the defendant a citizen of the United States. The decree of the Circuit Court of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
delivered the opinion of the.' court.
In a suit in the United States District Court for Porto. Rico, where the appellant, a bank incorporated in Porto Rico, was plaintiff, and the appellee, a citizen of the United States, was defendant, a final decree in favor of the bank was rendered, and from that decree the defendant took the case to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Upon a reversal of the decree in that court, the bank brought this appeal, and, upon a motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction, we are' required to determine its right to do so. The appellant, not denying…
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