Case Name: Fernández v. The Registrar of Property
Court: Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Jurisdiction: Puerto Rico
Decision Date: 1909-10-13
Citations: 15 P.R. 596
Docket Number: No. 36
Parties: Fernández v. The Registrar of Property.
Judges: Chief Justice Hernández and Justices Figueras, Wolf and del Toro concurred.
Reporter: Puerto Rico Reports
Volume: 15
Pages: 596–596

Head Matter:
Fernández v. The Registrar of Property.
Appeal from a decision of the Registrar of Property of San Juan.
No. 36.
Decided October 13, 1909.
Sale oe Land in Payment oe Taxes — Record oe Same in the Name op Another Person. — A deed of sale executed by a collector of internal revenue is not recordable in the registry when the propetry sold for taxes appears recorded in the name of a person other than he against whom the proceedings were taken.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice MacLeary
delivered the opinion of the court.
In this case a deed, executed by the tax collector conveying-a tract of land, sold for taxes, to Manuel Fernández Náter, was presented to the registrar of San Juan for registration. It was refused registration by the assistant registrar, Bafael Tirado Verrier, in a note reading as follows:
"The recording of the preceding document has-been refused on. account of the defect- that the property, which, accordinig to said document, appears provisionally on record on the back of folio 12 of volume 19 of the Registry of Property of San Juan in favor of Nell M. Erwin, is recorded in favor of a person other than Nell M. Erwin,, against whom the proceedings were taken; and a provisional entry has been made for the term prescribed by law on folio 13 of volume-19 of the municipality of Bayamón, property No. 1060, annotation B, in which are stated as remediable defects that particulars concerning the buyer are not set forth and that the names of the cardinal points of the property are not written in full."
From this action of the registrar the party interested took an appeal to this court and the document was forwarded to-us for consideration. The reasons given for his refusal by the registrar are sufficient and his action is affirmed by this. oomt-
Affirmed.
Chief Justice Hernández and Justices Figueras, Wolf and del Toro concurred.