Ex parte Hernández

The appellants presented a deed of partition of the estate of Juan Antonio Casañas, deceased, together with other documents, to the District Court of Arecibo for examination and approval and the said court having refused to approve the same by its decision of November 24, 1913, the petitioners appealed therefrom to this court.

This, then, is an appeal from a decision rendered in ex parte proceedings and the transcript of the record brought up to this court for our consideration is certified by the attorneys for the petitioner-appellants.

Act No. 70 of March 9, 1911, page 226, provides that the…