Colón v. Succession of Tristani

Me. Justice Cóedova Dávila

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The defendant has applied for a reconsideration of our judgment.* It is urged in the first place that we committed *220error in holding as competent and in considering the testimony of Josefa Colón, mother of Alberto Colón, with regard to transactions, acts, and statements of Alberto J. Tristani, putative father of said minor.

The defendant through its learned counsel maintains that the Legislature of Puerto Eico, on March 10, 1904, removed, similarly as had been done in other jurisdictions, the causes of incapacity to testify by reason…