¶1delivered the opinion of the court.
¶2*520Attorney Luis Freyre Barbosa, in the name of Maria Llompart, married to Sebastian Moll, applied to him for provisional maintenance before the District Court of San Juan. The husband contested the application on the ground that he had not abandoned his wife, and added that he is disposed to admit her to his household. The legal formalities having been followed in this proceeding, on August 7th of last year a judgment based on section 218 of the Civil Code was rendered, the final provisions of which read as follows:
“We adjudge that we should sustain, and do sustain, this complaint and in virtue whereof we hold that the defendant is bound to maintain his wife, and it is made optional with him whether he shall pay for the same in cash to the amount of twenty dollars monthly, which is the amount hereby fixed, or receive and maintain his said wife in his own home, without special imposition of costs. ”
¶3Notice of this judgment was served upon the parties on the day of the month and year above mentioned, and was consented to, because no appeal whatever was taken therefrom.
¶4On the 18th of said month Attorney Antonio Sarmiento, in the name of the husband, Sebastian Moll, presented to the court a written statement to the effect that his client was disposed to receive and maintain his wife in his home.
¶5Notice of said statement was ordered to be served upon the plaintiff who, accepting service of the same, prayed that an order issue to the manager of the Banco Español requiring him to deduct from the monthly salary of Moll, as an employee, the sum of twenty dollars to be delivered to his wife.
¶6On September 16, 1903, the following order was made, to-wit:
“The application is denied because the obligation of the defendant is optional, and it has not been shown that he refused to receive his wife in his home, or to comply with the obligation to maintain her, imposed by the judgment. ’ ’
¶7*521A modification of this judgment was prayed for and sub-sidiarily an appeal was taken, and after tbe adverse party was beard tbe first prayer was denied on tbe same grounds, and tbe appeal was allowed botb for review and stay of proceedings. Tbe record was sent up to tbis court after citation and summons of tbe parties, wbo appeared, they having examined tbe record on appeal and made their arguments at the bearing.
¶8We will now consider the nature of tbe decision appealed from in order to determine whether or not tbe appeal taken lies.
¶9Section 4 of tbe Act of the Legislative Assembly approved March 12, 1903, tbe purpose of which was to change tbe Supreme Court of this Island into a court of appeals, reads as follows:
“In all cases where reference is made in the Law of Civil Procedure to actions in cassation, the same shall be construed to mean actions on appeal.”
¶10Tbis means to say, that it has been so constructed in other cases by tbis court, that an appeal lies in all cases in which an appeal in cassation would lie, and, in contrariro censu, that an appeal will not lie in cases where an appeal in cassation would not lie according to law.
¶11Having set down this premise, sight should not be lost of the fact that the appeal was taken from an order entered in compliance with the judgment, and article 1693 of the former Law of Civil Procedure reads as follows:
“No appeal in cassation will lie from orders entered by audiencias in proceedings for the execution of judgment, unless substantial points are decided which are not controverted in the action nor decided in the judgment, or which are contradictory thereto. ’ ’
¶12So, then, if it is not maintained nor even, indicated, because it could not have been indicated or maintained, that in the *522order appealed from a point not controverted in the action had been decided, 'or decided in the judgment, or that the decision was contradictory thereto, in accordance with the provisions of article 1693 of the Law of Civil Procedure above cited, this appeal does not lie, and we therefore recommend that the sanie be dismissed with the costs against the appellant.
¶13So ordered.