F. Carrera & Hno. v. Heirs of Aquino

F. Carrera & Hno., a wholesale provision house, sued the heirs of Pedro Aquino to collect the balance of $1,045.50 allegedly due from Aquino, a retail merchant, when the latter died. The defendants filed an answer in which they admitted some of the allegations and denied others, but did not appear at the trial itself. After hearing the evidence of the plaintiff at the trial, the lower court entered a judgment in *141favor of the plaintiff for the amount sned for, with interest and costs. The defendants appealed from this judgment. They contend that the district court erred (a) in finding that the…