Torres v. Calaf
Torres v. Calaf
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a motion to dismiss an appeal substantially on the ground that the appeal was taken too late. The appellant, however, maintained that by virtue of the Act of March 9, 1911 (Laws of 1911, No. 70, p. 227), the time for appealing did not begin to run until within 30. days next preceding August 24, 1911, on which day the appeal was noted. There were several uncertainties and inaccuracies in the record and certificates transmitted to us for the purpose of determining whether the appeal lay. In order to verify whether or not the court had jurisdiction this court issued an order directed
To the complaint originally filed in this case the defendant demurred. The court sustained the demurrer on March 9, 1911, and on the same day judgment was entered in the judgment book. On March 27, 1911, the plaintiff and appellant notified the secretary and the attorney on the other side that he appealed from the judgment (sentencia) rendered in this case on March 9, 1911, by which the aforesaid demurrer was sustained. The record was in due course brought to this court. There was no judgment in the record, but merely an order of March 9, 1911, sustaining the demurrer. This court dismissed the appeal on the ground, as alleged in the opinion, that an, order on demurrer was not a final order and could not be appealed.
Before noting his appeal On March 27, 1911, the appellant on March 16, 1911, had filed and notified to the attorneys on the other side a motion for the entry of judgment; but no action was taken on this motion until July, 1911, when the District Court of San Juan entered a second judgment in the ease. On July 22, 1911, the appellee moved to set aside the second judgment on the ground that a judgment had already been made and entered on March 9, 1911. This motion and the grounds thereof were notified to the appellant on the said July 22, 1911. On July 26 a notice was sent out from the secretary’s office to the appellant that a judgment had been rendered against her on March 9, 1911.
• Now, whatever may have been the reasons assigned by this court for dismissing the former appeal, the physical and essential fact remains that the record in the former appeal did not contain any copy of a final judgment. The real reason for dismissing the appeal was that the mandatory record showed no final judgment, but only an order sustaining a
Under these circumstances we must hold that the appel
It is to be observed, moreover, that the motion of July 22, 1911, ashing for the revocation of the judgment of July 15,' 1911, was notified to the appellant on July 22, drawing attention to the judgment rendered on March. 9, 1911. Nevertheless, appellant waited for more than thirty days to appeal.
It is also questionable whether the Act of March 9, 1911, was in force when the judgment of March 9, 1911, was rendered, as that law took effect upon its approval.
The motion to dismiss the judgment must be granted.
Dismissed.
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