Massini-Pietri v. Rivera
Massini-Pietri v. Rivera
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
Domingo Massini brought an action of unlawful detainer against Catalina Eivera and Juan and Dionisio Echavarria, alleging that he was the owner of a rural property of 33 acres
Defendant Catalina Eivera pleaded that she was the owner of one acre of the land on which her two-story house and another one-story house belonging to Juan Echavarria were built; that she had been living in the said house for more than 25 years, and that she acquired it together with the land in the liquidation of the community property left at the death of her husband, Miguel Echavarria.
Dionisio Echavarria. pleaded that his house was not on the land described by the plaintiff, but on a property belonging to Wenceslao Echavarria that adjoined the land of the plaintiff.
From the evidence it is deduced that although Miguel Echavarria sold the principal property, which by successive transfers came into the possession of the plaintiff, it appears clearly that he did not dispose of the two-story house, which was allotted to his wife under the will made by him on November 11, 1915. However, the plaintiff introduced the will for the purpose of showing that the testator had preserved the house but not the land when in the seventh clause he said:
“Seventh. — That his estate consist's of two houses, one a two-story house and the other a one-story house, located on a property of which he was the owner but now belongs to the heirs of Rafael Barletta, in the Laguna ward of Aguada.”
At any rate it appears that there is involved a testamentary clause subject to interpretation to determine a question of title, and if we add that for several years Catalina Eivera had paid the taxes on the house and on one acre of land; that witness Marcos Soto, the manager of the plaintiff’s property,
Wherefore, the judgment appealed from must be affirmed.
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