Case Name: Rosa, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Seise, Defendant and Appellee
Court: Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Jurisdiction: Puerto Rico
Decision Date: 1922-02-06
Citations: 30 P.R. 87
Docket Number: No. 2498
Parties: Rosa, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Seise, Defendant and Appellee.
Judges: Chief Justice Del Toro and Justices Aldrey and Hutchi-son concurred.
Reporter: Puerto Rico Reports
Volume: 30
Pages: 87–88

Head Matter:
Rosa, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Seise, Defendant and Appellee.
Appeal from the District Court of San Juan in an Action of Debt.
No. 2498.
Decided February 6, 1922.
Jurisdiction — Partnership.—It being alleged in a complaint that the profits of a dissolved partnership sought to be liquidated amount to $2,000, of which the plaintiff is entitled to 20 per cent, or $400, it id necessary to conclude that the district eourt was without jurisdiction of the case, although the plaintiff claimed in his brief that the amount adjudicated might have been more than $500.
The facts are stated in the opinion.
Messrs. M. Tous Soto and F. M. Fernández for the appellant.
Messrs. L. Muñoz Morales, L. Villaronga and P. G. Qui-ñones for the appellee.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Wolf
delivered the opinion of the court.
The District Court of San Juan, First Section, sustained a demurrer to a complaint and the complainant appealed, alleging in opposition to the defendant that the eomplaint stated a cause of action and that as the amount' adjudicated might have been more than $500, the District Court of San Juan had jurisdiction.
We shall first address ourselves to the question of jurisdiction. The plaintiff set up a partnership between Epifanio Rosa and José Mercedes Seise, an existing dissolution or requested dissolution of said firm, and the nonpayment to the complainant of the amount due him.
The appellant says that in the liquidation he might have obtained more than $500, but we think that be is bound by the averments and claim of his complaint. The complaint, set up that the profits were $2,000 and the complainant was entitled to twenty per cent of the same, or, as averred, $400, with interest. This whole sum was less than $500. The complaint was also entitled "Recovery of Money." Under these circumstances, not more than $500 being claimed in the complaint, the District Court of San Juan was without jurisdiction.
It will therefore be unnecessary to review the other ground of demurrer and the judgment must be
Affirmed.
Chief Justice Del Toro and Justices Aldrey and Hutchi-son concurred.