Herbert Room v. Caribe Hilton Hotel

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Herbert Room commenced this diversity action to recover damages allegedly arising out of a heart attack he suffered on November 24, 1976, while a guest at defendant Caribe Hilton Hotel. At the close of plaintiff’s case-in-chief, the district court granted a directed verdict for defendant and plaintiff appeals. We affirm.

The facts as viewed in the light most favorable to plaintiff, see, e. g., Carlson v. American Safety Equipment Corp., 528 F.2d 384, 385 (1st Cir. 1976), are as follows. Herbert Room arrived in Puerto Rico on November 24, 1976 and…