Diaz v. Patterson

Citations

• 263 U.S. 399
• 44 S. Ct. 151
• 68 L. Ed. 356
• 1923 U.S. LEXIS 2756

Syllabus

<p>1. Owners of a registered title to land in the Canal Zone who are in possession and have maintained it for the period of extraordinary prescription (Civ. Code, Art. 2531,) cannot be disseized and deprived of the property by the mere registration of what purports to be a conveyance by a stranger to the title and subsequent lapse of the ten year period of ordinary prescription. Civ. Code, Art. 2526. P.400.</p> <p>2. Reasons for fpllowing local decisions in Porto Rico, with its own peculiar system of law, do not apply in the same degree to the Panama Code in its present application to the Canal Zone. P: 402.</p> <p>3. A decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals reversing a decree of the Court of the Canal Zone, held not res judicata on second appeal to the former court or on review of its final decision here. P. 402.</p> <p>4. Failure of the court to order notice to unknown claimants in a suit over title to land will not avail a plaintiff who. fails to establish * ■ any title or interest in himself. P. 402.</p>