Municipality of Isabela v. District Court of San Juan
Municipality of Isabela v. District Court of San Juan
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The attorney for the Municipality of Isabela filed in this court a petition for a writ of prohibition, alleging that the District Court of San Juan was maintaining jurisdiction of a certain case without legal authority. The conrt ordered a hearing and after it was held on the 28th of March, 1927, after mature consideration of the matter the conrt is of the opinion that the writ of prohibition should not he issued.
The petition is based on the ground (1) that the district court was maintaining jurisdiction of the action brought by Manuel Tous Soto against the petitioner, leaving aside without argument or decision a certain motion of the petitioner attaching the summons, and (2) that the district court failed to rnle on the anomalous sitnatiou of the double representation of the petitioner. The defendant municipality appeared in that action by certain attorneys appointed by the municipal assembly and by other attorneys appointed by the mayor. The petition for this writ of prohibition was filed by the attorney appointed by the mayor in representation of the municipality.
We agree with the petitioner that its double representation can not and must not stand and that perhaps the district court, after the argument heard by it, could and should have decided thereon. But that is no ground for a writ of prohibition.
Moreover, it must be admitted, as alleged at the hearing by the plaintiff in the action, that the question was not raised by written motion, which is the proper way of raising' questions in courts of record, except during the trial. The petitioner has every opportunity of raising the question again and to comply with all the requisites and formalities required by the best practice.
The issuance of the writ is denied.
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