Díaz v. Hernández

Mr. Justice Pérez Pimentel

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The former District Court of Puerto Rico, Bayamón Section, rendered judgment in an action claiming support, in which José Manuel Hernández was declared to be the father of minor José Manuel Díaz and as such under the obligation to support him and, consequently, ordering him to pay the minor the sum of seven dollars ($7.00) a week. Feeling aggrieved by that judgment, Hernández appealed to this Court alleging that the trial court committed several errors.

The first of those errors challenges the refusal of the lower court to hear the…