Torre v. National City Bank of New York

On July 3, 1931, the plaintiff filed a complaint in the District Court for the Judicial District of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on an over-due promissory note in which the present defendant-appellant and his sister jointly and severally promised to pay the American Colonial Bank of Puerto Rico the sum of $10,398.38 with interest at 9 per cent per annum after maturity, the note having been endorsed by the payee to the plaintiff. Judgment went against the sister by default. The judgment for the full amount of the note plus interest and costs, which was rendered against the present defendant-appellant, was affirmed on appeal by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, which judgment, in turn, was affirmed on appeal by this court, except as to an item of costs not now material. De La Torre v. National City Bank of New York, 1 Cir., 91 F.2d 399. The Supreme Court of the United States denied certiorari. Torre v. National City Bank, 302 U.S. 752, 58 S. Ct. 272, 82 L. Ed. 581.