Case ID: pr_32/html/0618-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mu. Justice Wole", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Rodríguez, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Rodríguez, Defendant and Appellee.
    Appeal from the District Court of Humacao in an Action for Divorce. — Change of Venue.
    No. 3179.
    Decided January 22, 1924.
    Venue — Change of Venue — Appeal—Notice of Appeal — Jurisdiction.—Undei section 296 of the Code of Civil Procedure an appeal from an order granting a change of venue will be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction when notice of the appeal is given to the adverse party and to the clerk of the court to which the ease is transferred, instead of to the clerk of the court in which the order appealed from is entered.
    The facts are stated in the opinion.
    
      Mr. M. A. Rivera for the appellant.
    
      Mr. F. Pinero for the appellee.
   Mu. Justice Wole

delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant alleged that the District Court of Ponce erred in ordering a change of venue to the District Court of Humacao. We were considering the appeal on its mérits-when we discovered that the record was certified to us, not by the Secretary of the District Court of Ponce, hut by the Secretary of the District Court of Humacao. A closer investigation revealed that the appeal, although notified to the adverse party, was not notified to the Secretary of the-District Court of Ponce, but to the Secretary of the District Court of Humacao.

Section 296 of the Code of Civil Procedure provides;

“An appeal is taken by filing with the'secretary of the court in which the judgment or order appealed from is entered, a notice stating the appeal from the same, or some specific part thereof, and serving a similar notice on the adverse party, or his attorney.”

This section contemplates a notice to the secretary of the court which enters the judgment' or. order and to no other secretary. Both a notice to the particular secretary and to the adverse party is necessary to transfer the cause and give jurisdiction to this court. We regret the necessity for this action, hut we are without jurisdiction and the appeal must he dismissed.

Appeal dismissed.

Chief Justice Del Toro and Justices Aldrey and Hutchi-son concurred.

Mr. Justice Franco Soto took no part in the decision cri this case.