Ochoa v. Hernandez Y Morales
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR EORTO RICO. The facts, which involve thé title to real estate in Porto Rico and the constitutionality of certain military orders during the military occupation of that Island, are stated in the opinion. The Judicial Order of April 4, 1899,-is not unconstitutional nor is it repugnant to Art. V of, or the Fourteenth Amendment to, the Constitution of the United States.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR EORTO RICO. The facts, which involve thé title to real estate in Porto Rico and the constitutionality of certain military orders during the military occupation of that Island, are stated in the opinion. The Judicial Order of April 4, 1899,-is not unconstitutional nor is it repugnant to Art. V of, or the Fourteenth Amendment to, the Constitution of the United States. Paragraph 3 of the Judicial Order is not a statute of limitations properly so called. It cut off no right of action on the part of anyone. In the present case-it permitted…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
This was a suit in equity to establish the right of the complainants (appellees) to a. parcel of land containing-106 acres, situate in the Barrio Nuevo, in the Jurisdiction of Naranjito, in the Island of Portó Rico, found to exceed in value the sum of $5,000. The District Court decreed that the complainants, were .the legal owners of this land by inheritance, and entitled to the possession of it as against the appellants, a firm doing business under the name of J. Ochoa y Hermano; that the firm should deliver possession to the appellees; that all entries in the registry of property, of…
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