Molini Ruiz v. District Court of Puerto Rico

Mr. Chief Justice Todd, Jr.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

*885In civil case 1SÍÓ. 10,387, Adelaida Tomasa Burgos, represented and assisted by her mother Carmen Burgos Torres, v. Tomás Molini Ruiz, action of filiation and for support, this Court, in a per curiam opinion dated May 10, 1951, affirmed the judgment rendered by the District Court of Arecibo declaring that the plaintiff must be considered as an acknowledged natural daughter of the defendant for the sole purpose of bearing the latter’s surname, and ordering the defendant to give plaintiff, from the date of the filing of the…