Legal Opinion
Jardines Bacata, Limited v. Aniceto Diaz-Marquez
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 10, 1989No. 89-1062PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
If it is true, as a lawyer-turned-poet once wrote, that “[ejrror is a hardy plant [which] flourisheth in every soil,” M. Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy of Truth in Things False (1842), then this appeal stems from a veritable hothouse of efflorescent lapses by the parties, their counsel, and, in some respects, by the district court. We have pruned the overhanging foliage and weeded the ground cover, with mixed results.
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The seeds of strife were sown in 1983 when plaintiff-appellant Jardines Bacata, Ltd. (JBL), a Colombian corporation, agreed to sell flowers on credit to…
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