Bayamon Thom McAn Inc. v. Eileen Josefina Miranda, Kiddielane Florida Corporation v. Eileen Josefina Miranda

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

These are appeals from judgments on plaintiffs’ verdicts in a negligence action in the district of Puerto Rico, with jurisdiction being based on 48 U.S.C. § 863, all of the defendant corporations being non-domiciliaries of Puerto Rico. The minor plaintiff, Eileen Josefina Miranda Skerret, recovered $100,000 from defendants-appellants for damages resulting from a fall from a hobbyhorse in 1963, when she was a fifteen month old infant. Her parents recovered damages of $30,-000. The horse is owned by defendant-appellant Kiddielane Florida Corporation (Kiddielane), and was…