Santana v. Orcasitas Muñoz

The plaintiff are the heirs of Mrs. Biearda Pereira. They claim ten thousand six hundred dollars from defendant Pedro Orcasitas Muñoz on the grounds afforded by the following facts:

*697At the time of her death — November, 1918 — Ricarda Pe-reira was the owner of a rural property of thirty-three acres (cioerdas) in size, located in the Ward Hato Nuevo in the municipality of Gurabo, that she mortgaged in favor of defendant Pedro Orcasitas Muñoz to answer for four hundred dollars, interest and one hundred and fifty dollars for costs, in case of judicial recovery.

On May 19, 1919, that is, after the1…