Roura v. Government of the Philippine Islands

Citations

• 218 U.S. 386
• 31 S. Ct. 73
• 54 L. Ed. 1080
• 1910 U.S. LEXIS 2034

Syllabus

<p>Jurisdiction as to amount in controversy sustained on the facts disclosed in affidavits filed in this court, there being non'e filed in Rebuttal.</p> <p>The decree of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands denying a petition for registration of title to land on the ground that the petitioner had no legal title thereto under Spanish law, sustained.</p> <p>Issue in the courts below having been confined solely to the legality of deeds on which the petitioner sought to register and which those courts held to have been fraudulently obtained and illegal, the title could not be registered^ on claim of quiet possession subsequent to . the obtaining of those deeds and in regard to which there was no proof in the record.</p>