Case Name: Ricardo Casals, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Angelina Rosario, Defendant and Appellee
Court: Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Jurisdiction: Puerto Rico
Decision Date: 1925-03-31
Citations: 34 P.R. 73
Docket Number: No. 3423
Parties: Ricardo Casals, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Angelina Rosario, Defendant and Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Puerto Rico Reports
Volume: 34
Pages: 73–74

Head Matter:
Ricardo Casals, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Angelina Rosario, Defendant and Appellee.
No. 3423.
Argued February 11, 1925.
Decided March 31, 1925.
M. Gaetim Barbosa for the appellant. M. Tons Soto and Enrique Campillo for the appellee.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Wole
delivered the opinion of the court.
Although a member of the bar does not conduct a suit, he is capable of representing the client in presenting and swearing to a memorandum of costs. The costs, including attorney fees, really belong to the client and any attorney may act as agent to establish the costs. Any attorney may bring a brother attorney into the case, as was done here, and the relation of attorney and client exists •even as to the substituted attorney.
In this case the appellee did not rely on this principle, but the memorandum was amended by substituting ihe oath of the client. We agree with the court that such an amendment might be made nunc pro tunc. Fajardo Sugar Co. v. Torres, 28 P.R.R. 58. The memorandum was, there fore, not filed too late. We cannot agree that the memorandum was ever void and inexistent, and hold, until convinced to the contrary, that an unsworn memorandum may,, in the discretion of the court, he amended to permit the oath..
The judgment must be affirmed.