Marterie v. Dorado Beach Hotel

OPINION and ORDER

FERNANDEZ-BADILLO, District Judge.

The Court is asked in this diversity suit to construe a local statutory provision tolling the statute of limitations during the absence of a defendant from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 32 L.P.R.A. § 253, 1 and to consider the man ner, if any, in which such suspensory provision is affected by the fact that service of process upon a non-resident is available pursuant to local rule 4.7, Volume 32 of L.P.R.A., commonly referred to as Puerto Rico’s long-arm statute. 2

On December 28, 1967 plaintiffs filed a complaint against the Dorado Beach…