Calaf Y Fugurul v. Calaf Y Rivera

Citations

• 232 U.S. 371
• 34 S. Ct. 411
• 58 L. Ed. 642
• 1914 U.S. LEXIS 1365

Syllabus

<p>While under the laws of Toro parol acts, although not amounting to a solemn recognition, may have entitled a natural child to sue in Porto Rico for a share of the parent’s inheritance and prove the acts in the same suit, the existing Code requires a preliminary proceeding to prove those, acts and to declare their effect, and limits the time within which such proceeding can be brought. Cordova v. Folgueras, 227 U. S. 375. '</p> <p>A judgment or decree bars all grounds for the relief sought and, as res judicata, it is a bar to a subsequent suit between the same parties the object of which is to reach the same result by different means.</p> <p>Whether the judgment in a former suit between -the same parties was or was not final is a question of local practice upon which this court follows the local court unless strong reasons are produced against it.</p>