Mongil v. Castro

Mu. Justice Wole

delivered the opinion of the court.

In pursuance of an application, for a writ of certiorari the petitioner, who was defendant in the court below, alleged that the complainant, Doña Luisa Saldamando, assisted by her husband, Roque Saldamando y Torres, brought a suit against the petitioner; that the original complaint was not sworn and was amended on November 20, 1912, and therein the complainant demanded of the defendant the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the supposed publication of a libellous writing; that thereafter on November 30, 1912, the defendant…