Olmo Larracuenta v. Vicenty
Olmo Larracuenta v. Vicenty
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
In the instant case the district court entered judgment for the plaintiff in a suit for revendieation of urban property. The defendant appealed, and the plaintiff has moved to dismiss his appeal as frivolous.
It is conceded that plaintiff bought the property in question from the previous owner and that the plaintiff has recorded title thereto. But the defendant insists that the judgment rendered herein is erroneous because, prior to the sale thereof to the plaintiff, the vendors had given the defendant a binding option to buy the property.
We have examined the record, and find no evidence of such a binding option. On the contrary, the record discloses only a letter written by one of the vendors eleven months before the sale of the property, making an offer to sell the property to the defendant on certain terms therein specified. The record discloses no acceptance of this offer. It is true that the defendant introduced in evidence the record of a previous suit between the same parties herein, in which the district court decided a desahucio suit in favor of the defendant on the ground that oral testimony offered by the defendant as to a verbal option had _ raised a sufficient con
Assuming, without deciding, that a binding option would be a valid defense to the suit herein, there was a total lack of proof of such an option in this case.
In the light of the foregoing, the award of attorney’s fees herein was justified.
The motion to dismiss the appeal will be granted.
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