Díaz v. Garau-Castañer
Díaz v. Garau-Castañer
Opinion of the Court
delivered tlie opinion of the court.
It would appear from the opinion and judgment in this case that Gabriel Garan Castañer began a summary mortgage proceeding against Cristóbal Díaz Maldonado. The appellants Félix Cortés et al. apparently sought to intervene in the said summary mortgage proceeding. The complaint in intervention is numbered 7398.
Gabriel Garau Castañer presented an opposition to the complaint in intervention. The trial took place on the 26th day of July, 1924, and on the 29th of July, 1924, the court decided that an intervention of the kind sought did not lie to stop the summary mortgage proceeding, and we are inclined to think the court was right. However, we do not base our decision on this ground.
We have before ns an entirely incomplete record. The pleadings in the mortgage proceeding case have not been certified to ns. We have no certificate, statement of the case or bill of exceptions to show the evidence heard by the District Court of Arecibo at tbe trial. The utmost that we could take notice of was a certificate from the registry of
The theory of the appellant evidently was that this was all documentary evidence and did not need anything but the certificate of the secretary, but we have held that evidence presented at the trial which forms no part of the pleadings must be certified by the judge, even if it is documental. Non constat that the judge may have had before him other evidence. Of papers annexed to a complaint only the execution and authenticity is admitted. They do not of themselves necessarily prove their contents, especially .as the averments .of the complaint are not proof at the trial. Having before us an imperfect judgment roll, with no statement of the evidence taken at the trial, we are in no condition to discuss the errors raised by the appellant.
The appellee also draws attention that the appeal apparently was taken in the intervening proceeding and not in the summary mortgage proceeding wherein the judgment was rendered. Perhaps there is some force in the suggestion of a lack of a right to appeal, but we base our decision on the lack of a complete record.
‘\,The judgment must • be affirmed.
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