Court Opinion

ID: 8525450
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-23 10:55:29.533543+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:51:38.124791
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Mr. Justice Aldrey
delivered the opinion of the court.
The transcript of the record filed in this court contains the complaint which originated the action in the Municipal Court of San Germán, the demurrer thereto by the'defendants and the judgment of that court as well as the judgment rendered by the District Court of Mayagiiez on appeal in this action, which was joined with another, the conclusions on which the said judgment was based and the notice of appeal.
The brief of the appellant having been filed in this court, the appellee presented a certificate of the Secretary of the District Court of Mayagiiez to the effect that the demurrer to the complaint had not been heard and ruled on by the said court, and moved this court to "dismiss the appeal.
The grounds of the motion are clearly erroneous, for even if the district court did not rule on the demurrer of one of the defendants in the municipal court, that is no reason why such grounds of demurrer as the lack of jurisdiction of the court and insufficient facts to constitute, a cause of action, although they had not been pleaded before, may not be considered by this court, as we have held repeatedly.
The other ground that as the case was decided on the merits of the evidence the transcript of the record should necessarily contain a statement of the evidence or a bill of exceptions and that the appeal should be dismissed because .of the absence thereof is equally erroneous, for, as we held in the case of Belaval v. Todd, 22 P. R. R. 120, the omission of a statement of the case does not of itself justify the dismissal *202of an appeal because that does not prevent an examination of the pleading’s by the court.
The motion should be

Overruled.

Chief Justice Hernández and Justices Wolf and del Toro concurred.
Mr. Justice Hutchison took no part in the decision of this case.'