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6 P.R. 471

Curbelo v. Arrieta

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

Decided May 6, 1904

Supreme Court of Puerto Rico · decided 1904-05-06

Appear from the District Court of Arecibo. STATEMENT OP THE CASE. This is an appeal taken by Jose Peruchet Castell in a decla-claratory action instituted by Serafina Curbelo de Diaz against Miguel Arrieta Dorregaray, in the District Court of Arecibo, involving a claim to joint ownership, José Peruchet Castell and Francisco Gumersindo Díaz, the latter as assignee of Curbelo, having also intervened.

Decided 1904-05-06

Mb. Justice HebNÁNdez,

¶1after making the above statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The act of March 12,1903, establishing the Supreme Court as a court of appeals, did not leave in full force and effect all the provisions of the Law of Civil Procedure allowing appeals, but only those under which the procedure conforms to the provisions of the Law of Civil Procedure for suits of greater import, suppressing the proceedings known by the name of “apuntamiento,” as prescribed by section 3 of aforesaid act, which expressly repealed, under section 2, all the sections of the Law of Civil Procedure establishing proceedings for appeals in cassation.

¶3The aforesaid act of March 12, in prescribing, under section 4 thereof, that in all cases where reference is made in the Law of Civil Procedure to appeals in cassation, the same shall be construed as meaning ordinary appeals, clearly reveals that it was the intention of the legislator that appeals to the Su*477preme Court shall now be allowed from the same decisions as those that could formerly be the object of appeals in cassation, under the Law of Civil Procedure.

¶4Said law, in articles 1687 and 1688, specifies the decisions from 'which appeals in cassation, now therefore on appeal, conld formerly be resorted to, and the subject-matter of the present appeal cannot he considered as included in aforesaid enumeration, since it deals with a decision which cannot he described as final, inasmuch as it does not terminate the action nor render its continuation impossible.

¶5We adjudge that we should declare.and do declare that the appeal taken by José Peruchet Castell cannot be considered, and impose costs upon appellant. The record is ordered to be returned to the District Court of Arecibo, with a certificate of the present decision, for such action as may he proper.

Chief Justice Quiñones and Justices Figueras and Mac-Leary concurred.Mr. Justice Sulzbacher did not sit at the hearing of this case.
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