Ex parte Rivera Bonilla v. Font Pacheco
Ex parte Rivera Bonilla v. Font Pacheco
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
By an open will executed December 14, 1936, Agapito Font Cuevas made disposition of his property, to take effect after his death. He designated as his general executrix his
Agapito Pont Cuevas died on September 30, 1937, and ou October 6 of the same year his widow, Carmen Rivera Bonilla, in her capacity as testamentary executrix, requested the District Court of San Juan to decree the judicial administration of the estate of the decedent and to appoint her in ■due course administratrix of the estate, in accordance with the preference which the law recognized in her favor as such widow. On the following day she applied for a provisional •appointment pending a decision of her motion of October 6. ■On the 8th she filed another motion -withdrawing the former •one for her appointment as provisional administratrix. On that same day the court granted her application for leave to withdraw her motion for appointment as provisional admin-istratrix and ordered the summoning by publication of the heirs, legatees, and creditors of the decedent to appear on December 8 and state any reasons they might have in favor ■ of the appointment of a judicial administrator.
Subsequently, on January 28, 1938, she applied to the •court for leave also to withdraw her motion- filed on September 6 of the previous year, wherein she sought to he appointed judicial administratrix of the estate. Such leave ■was refused.
Section 295 of the Code of Civil Procedure (1933 ed.) provides:
“Section 295. — An appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court from a District Court:
“1. Prom a final judgment in an action or special proceeding commenced in the court in which the same is rendered, within one month after the entry of judgment.
“2. Prom a judgment rendered on an appeal from an inferior court, within fifteen days after the entry of such judgment, shóuld the value of the property claimed or amount of the judgment not including products and interest thereon exceed three hundred dollars ($300)..
“3. Prom an order granting or refusing a new trial; from an order granting or dissolving an injunction; from an order refusing to grant or dissolve an injunction; from an order dissolving or1 refusing to dissolve an attachment; from an order granting or refusing to grant a change of the place of trial; from any special order made after final judgment; and from an interlocutory judgment in actions for partition of real property, within ten days after the order or interlocutory judgment is made and entered on the minutes, of the court or filed with the secretary.”
The law relative to special legal proceedings specifically provides as to what orders, resolutions or judgments are appealable. Thus, section 553 of the Code of Civil Procedure (1933 ed.), contained in Chapter III dealing with “Declaration of Heirship,” prescribes that “an appeal may be taken” from any judgment rendered; and. section 604, in Title II which treats of the “Division and Partition of Inheritance,”1 provides for an appeal to the Supreme Court from any order of a district court modifying the partition made of the inheritance. Therefore, as the right of appeal is not an absolute; but a statutory right, in specifying those cases where an. appeal is allowed the law meant to exclude all others. Ex-pressio unius est exclusio alterius.
In opposition to the motion to dismiss the appeal on tile; ground that the same is improper, the appellant cites the-
As the order appealed from in the instant case is not appealable, it is unnecessary for us to consider whether the appeal is frivolous. The appeal must be dismissed.
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