March 10, 1993
United States Court of Appeals
For the First Circuit
No. 92-2083
JORGE CRUZ,
Plaintiff, Appellant,
v.
NORBERTO MOLINA LUGO,
Defendant, Appellee.
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO
[Hon. Gene Carter, U.S. District Judge]
Before
Stahl, Circuit Judge,
Aldrich and Coffin, Senior Circuit Judges.
Raul Barrera Morales for appellant.
Federico Lora Lopez for appellee.
Per Curiam. In this appeal, plaintiff seeks review
of a carefully and fully developed decision of the district
court rendered after a bench trial. After ruling that
plaintiff's lease had been violated by defendant's illegal
exclusion of plaintiff from the premises, the court found
that plaintiff had suffered no damages as a result of that
occurrence, but that defendant had suffered damages in the
amount of sixty dollars for past due rent and seven hundred
dollars for exterminating services made necessary because of
plaintiff's inadequate housekeeping. The court also found
that certain other claims brought by plaintiff were lacking
in any substance.
Plaintiff's objections on appeal are based on his
challenges to factual determinations of the court, which, of
course, are accepted unless demonstrated to be "clearly
erroneous." See Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(a). Having carefully
reviewed the record on appeal and the objections raised by
plaintiff, we are not persuaded that the court clearly erred
in making the determinations at issue. Accordingly, we
affirm based on the well-reasoned district court opinion.
Affirmed. Double costs to appellee.
Affirmed Double costs to appellee
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