Garcia Maytin v. Vela

Citations

• 216 U.S. 598
• 30 S. Ct. 439
• 54 L. Ed. 632
• 1910 U.S. LEXIS 1926

Syllabus

<p>In the absence of summons and severance all defendants against whom a decree in an equity suit is entered must join in tire appeal. Hardee v. Wilxon, M0 U. 8.' 179.</p> <p>In a suit coming from a Territory this court is not inclined to over- ■ throw the assumptions of the trial court in regard to matters controlled by the local law; and so held in affirming a judgment in a case coming from Porto Rico involving questions of inheritance and prescription,</p> <p>Quture, as to the effect of Article 811 of the Civil Code of Porto Rico, requiring an ascendant inheriting property under certain conditions to reserve the property in favor of relatives belonging to the line from which the property originally came, as to property inherited before the adoption of the article by one dying after its adoption still possessed of the property.</p>