Cruz v. Bruno Rodríguez

This is an action of performance of a contract of sale of a house. It is alleged in the complaint that Antonio B. Rodriguez and Inés López de Bruno were the owners of a house located in Barrio Obrero, in Santurce, and executed a contract of sale of the house in favor of Aurelia Cruz, now substituted as plaintiff, by reason of her death, by her heir, Francisco Cruz Vega; that before the contract was executed, Antonio B. Rodriguez had been committed to the Clínica Dr. Juliá because he suffered from a mental disease. Plaintiff’s theory is that at the time the contract was executed Rodriguez was…