Baetjer v. Garzot

WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendants from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Puerto Rico ordering them to convey to the plaintiffs a certain parcel of land situated in Naguabo, Puerto Rico in consideration of the sum of $1,762.

Jurisdiction is based upon diversity of citizenship and an amount in controversy in excess of $3,000.

The pertinent facts may be briefly summarized ’ as follows:

On August 21, 1916 Juan R. Garzot and his wife Rosario Aguayo de la Fuente executed a “deed of purchase and sale” in which they conveyed the parcel of…