Ruiz Callejas v. Registrar of Property of San Germán

On its merits this appeal involves the sufficiency of a partition deed to transfer title, in a case where minors were involved and an adjudication in payment of debts was made. There is, however, a preliminary question. The said minors attempted to convey property nominally passing to them nnder the deed. The Registrar of San Germán in September, 1929, refused record on the justifiable ground that the property attempted to he conveyed did not appear to he in the name of the alleged grantors. Thereupon the latter pre*897sented a partition deed executed in 1909, purporting to convey the said title.…