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5 P.R. 7

García v. Roig

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

Decided December 11, 1903

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico · decided 1903-12-11

This is a case prosecuted in the District Court of Maya-güez, by Elisa García Sanjurjo, as plaintiff, represented and defended in this Supreme Court by Antonio Alvarez, Esq., and Antonio Roig Torrellas, now Ms assignee Pablo Roig Torrellas, represented and defended by Ms counsel, Fernando Vázquez, and Isidro Fernández Sanjurjo, as defendants, tbe latter not entering an appearance in tMs court, in the matter of a complaint in intervention of ownership pending before us on…

Decided 1903-12-11

Mr Justice Sulzbacher,

¶1after making the above statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court as follows:

¶2*17Inasmuch, as the ownership of the estate “Carmen” belongs at present to The People of Porto Eico by virtue of the-deed of sale executed in its favor by plaintiff in intervention,, on August 29, 1902, and said estate was the property of The-People of Porto Eico at the time of answering the complaint, the ownership thereof cannot be declared.in favor of Elisa. Garcia Sanjurjo, as claimed by her in this suit. '

¶3We adjudge that we should affirm, and do affirm, the judgment of December 20, 1902, appealed from, with costs of the-.appeal also against plaintiff. The record is ordered to be returned to the District Court of Mayagiiez, with the proper-certificate.

Chief Justice Quinones and Justices Hernández and Mac-Leary, concurred. ' 'Mr. Justice Figueras did not sit at the hearing of this: case.
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