Case Name: González v. The Registrar of Property
Court: Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Jurisdiction: Puerto Rico
Decision Date: 1911-04-27
Citations: 17 P.R. 461
Docket Number: No. 86
Parties: González v. The Registrar of Property.
Judges: Chief Justice Hernández and Justices MacLeary, Wolf, del Toro, and Aldrey concurred.
Reporter: Puerto Rico Reports
Volume: 17
Pages: 461–462

Head Matter:
González v. The Registrar of Property.
Appeal from a decision of the Registrar of Property of San Juan, Section 1.
MotioN that record he officially entered.
No. 86.
Decided April 27, 1911.
Record — Dues.—The expenses occasioned by the new record to be- made in the registry in eases where the determination of the registrar has been reversed must be .paid by the party concerned, unless the court should decide that the same must be satisfied by the registrar.
Mr. Baúl Benedicto for the petitioner.

Opinion:
DECISION OE THE COURT.
The appellant, Pascasia González, requests in the foregoing petition that inasmuch as the decision of the registrar of property refusing admission to record had been reversed and the record ordered to be made, without taxing any costs against said registrar, it must be decided by this court that said record should be entered officially.
The act to provide for appeals against the decisions of registrars of property, approved March 1, 1902, prescribes, under section 6, that in case the decision of the registrar be reversed the Supreme Court may, in its discretion, impose upon the registrar as costs, postage, and incidental expenses not exceeding $50, of the person in interest, and may also require the registrar to enter the record without charge.
At the date of aforesaid act registrars received the dues or fees accruing from the registry; but since the approval on March 10, 1904, of the act assigning salaries to the registrars of property, and for other purposes, The People of Porto Rico collect in internal-revenue stamps the fees charged for records under the schedule contained in said act.
The People of Porto Rico cannot be deprived of the right conferred upon it by aforesaid act to collect in internal-revenue stamps any sum covered into the office of the regis- trár of property, and we fail to find sufficient reason why the respondent registrar should be made to pay the expenses caused by the record ordered to be entered.
The petitioner's motion is denied.
Motion denied.
Chief Justice Hernández and Justices MacLeary, Wolf, del Toro, and Aldrey concurred.