La Sociedad Protectora de los Niños Huérfanos v. District Court of San Juan
La Sociedad Protectora de los Niños Huérfanos v. District Court of San Juan
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The petition of certiorari filed in this case alleges that the lower court committed, pertain errors of procedure when
It appears, from the study which we have made of the above mentioned records, that the plaintiffs in the nullity proceedings — here interveners — allege five causes of nullity which the trial judge set forth in his opinion under the letters A to E, inclusive; that said judge discussed the causes of nullity set forth under the letters A to C, and decreed the nullity of the summary foreclosure proceeding, basing his judgment on the last of these causes and expressing himself as follows:
“As wo consider that the ground of nullity under letter C. is sufficient to uphold a judgment for plaintiffs with respect to the first cause of action of the complaint, since the motion requesting the service of the summons upon the defendants by publication, in the above mentioned summary foreclosure proceeding, was not sworn, we shall not consider the other two alleged causes of nullity. This court never acquired jurisdiction over said defendants, The motion of nonsuit is denied.”
It appears furthermore from the petition of certiorari and the action of nullity, that an appeal taken from the judgment rendered in said action is still pending. Even assuming that the grounds on which the trial judge based his opinion were erroneous, the judgment would have to be affirmed if other grounds which would uphold it should appear from the record, since the lower court did not consider the alleged causes of nullity under letters D and E which in our opinion are not frivolous; said judgment may not be annulled in this
For the foregoing reasons, the writ issued is annulled, without prejudging the questions raised in the petition for certiorari.
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