People of Porto Rico v. Livingston

Ejectment is a suit at law in which the .plaintiff is entitled to a jury trial under the Seventh Amendment of the Constitution of the United States — the supreme law of our land. A judgment for defendant, duly recorded, as it may now be under the Act of March 8, 1906 (Compilation of Rev. St. and Codes of Porto Rico, page 848), will effectually remove any alleged cloud on her title. She therefore had a plain, adequate, and complete remedy at law. Rev. St. § 723 (28 USCA § 384).

Moreover, unless the defendant had a good legal title, she had no occasion to resort to equity to remove an alleged…