Importers Center, Inc. v. Newell Companies, Inc.

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico awarding plaintiff-appellant, Importers Center, Inc. (“Importers”) six months’ rent as damages for a breach by defendant-appellee, Newell Companies, Inc. (“Newell”) of its lease of Importers’ industrial buildings, 581 F.Supp. 1110. Importers asserts on appeal that the district court misunderstood and misapplied the Puerto Rico law of damages.

Importers is the owner of two industrial buildings in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. Effective August 1, 1981, Importers and…