Martínez Rivera v. Superior Court of Puerto Rico

This appeal involves the application of the rules of discovery of evidence — depositions, interrogatories and inspection of documents — to the proceedings for condemnation of private property. Before considering the question raised it is necessary to establish clearly the source from whence flows the authority for said application, taking into account that it concerns a special proceeding, with its own highlights in the procedural field.

Section 3 of our Eminent Domain Act, Act of March 12, 1903, 32 L.P.R.A. $ 2914, was amended by Act No. 178 of May 4, 1949 (Sess. Laws, pp. 560, 564), to…