Cantellops v. Municipal Court of San Juan (Second Section)
Cantellops v. Municipal Court of San Juan (Second Section)
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court.
We are asked to dismiss this appeal, taken from a judgment of the District Court of Ban Jnan discharging a writ of certiorari which it had issued.
In his application for the writ, the petitioner alleged under oath through his attorney that unlawful detainer proceedings had been brought against him for nonpayment of rent; that judgment had been rendered immediately after the first appearance, without the cáse having been duly set and heard on a second appearance, and that in an ordinary appeal the defendant would be compelled to deposit the rent notwithstanding his having denied that the house which was the object of the action belonged to the plaintiff, and despite the fact that petitioner is not bound to pay such rent. The district court issued the writ applied for, ordered that the original record in the unlawful detainer proceeding be sent up and, after a hearing, it discharged the writ.
It appears from the record considered by the district court in rendering the judgment appealed from, a certified copy of which record has been filed in this court by the appellee, that it was not true that in the unlawful detainer proceeding judgment had been rendered “immediately after the first appearance, without the case having been duly set and heard
For the foregoing reasons, the appeal must be dismissed as frivolous.
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