EX PARTE RICHARD PAUL BILLINGS; AND EX PARTE HOWARD H. HIGLEY

Citator

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• Bonet v. Tex. Co. (p. R.), Inc., 308 U.S. 463 (U.S. 1940)
  …rted violation by the Circuit Court of Appeals of the well established rule that Puerto Rican tribunals must not be overruled on their construction of local statutes in absence of “clear or manifest error.” Bonet v. Yabucoa Sugar Co., 306 U. S. 505; 307 U. S. 613. The theory underlying respondent’s bill was that it was an insured employer and therefore the awards should have been paid out of the state fund,2 and that its remedy at law was not adequate. The. bill so alleged, and attacked the orders of the Co…
• Ballester-Ripoll v. Court of Tax Appeals of Puerto RICO, 142 F.2d 11 (1st Cir. 1944)
  …if that judgment is “inescapably wrong”. Puerto Rico v. Rubert Hermanos Co., 1942, 315 U.S. 637, 62 S.Ct. 771, 86 L.Ed. 1081; Bonet v. Texas Co., 1940, 308 U.S. 463, 60 S.Ct. 349, 84 L.Ed. 401; Sancho Bonet v. Yabucoa Sugar Co., 1939, 306 U.S. 505, 307 U.S. 613, 59 S.Ct. 626, 83 L.Ed. 946. Since this is a matter of local law, United States v. Robbins, supra; De la Torre v. National City Bank of New York, supra, we need go no further than to say that the judgment below is not inescapably wrong. The taxpaye…

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• Ballester v. Descartes, 181 F.2d 823 (1st Cir. 1950)
  …tro v. Board of Commissioners, 1944, 322 U.S. 451, 64 S.Ct. 1121, 88 L.Ed. 1384. The interpretation adopted by the court below in this case seems to us “not unsupported by logic or reason.” Sancho Bonet v. Yabucoa Sugar Co., 1939, 306 U.S. 505, 510, 307 U.S. 613, 59 S.Ct. 626, 629, 83 L.Ed. 946. Indeed, the striking weakness of appellant’s argument on this branch of the case is that he is unable to advance any plausible theory as to what the legislature was driving at in its 1941 amendment of the definition…