Llenza v. Banco de Ponce

85 P.R. 764
CourtSupreme Court of Puerto Rico
DecidedJune 26, 1962
DocketNo. 12532
StatusPublished

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Llenza v. Banco de Ponce, 85 P.R. 764 (prsupreme 1962).

Opinion

Mr. Justice Santana Becerra

delivered the opinion of the Court.

By deed No. 35, executed in Río Piedras on March 5, 1948 before Notary Edrulfo Astacio, partners Miguel Angel Dávila, Charles Llenza, and Juan R. Dávila dissolved the general mercantile partnership “Dávila & Llenza.” Among the clauses of dissolution it was agreed as follows:

“Eighth. — Whereas, the appearing parties Miguel Angel Dávila and Juan R. Dávila have assumed the obligation to pay in full the debts and obligations which constitute the liabilities of Mercantil Dávila & Llenza, exonerating and liberating Charles Llenza from the full or partial payment thereof, with the exception of the ten thousand dollars ($10,000) of capital and interest as of the thirty-first day of January of the present year, of the mortgage credit in favor of Celso J. Ortiz, which encumbers the two-story building on Arsuaga Street of Río Pie-dras which was awarded to Charles Llenza, and that the latter assumes the obligation to pay the same, and excepting further the commissions, fees and court expenses which it may be necessary to incur in the collection of the accounts receivable entered or not in the books, in the manner and with the limitations already imposed and agreed upon, the appearing parties hereby agree, solely for the purpose of securing to Charles Llenza the payment of such debts and obligations, that the seven lots of Dávila t Llenza Development described under letters B, C, D, E, F, G, and I of the second paragraph of the recital hereof, shall answer for the payment of one third of the [767]*767debts and liabilities of Mercantil Dávila & Llenza, thereby constituting a collateral security which shall subsist until the creditors are paid or until such time as the creditors accept any other security from Miguel ángel Dávila and Juan R. Dávila. However, it is expressly agreed that the security stipulated hereinabove on the lots described in the SECOND paragraph of the recital hereof shall not constitute a real charge on the said lots, so that Miguel ángel Dávila and Juan R. Dávila may sell, assign, and convey the said lots or any of them free from liens and give them as direct or collateral security to banking institutions, provided the proceeds of the operation carried out guarantee proportionally to Charles Llenza the payment of the debts and obligations referred to in this clause, on condition that in order to sell, assign, encumber, or mortgage these lots, the consent of Charles Llenza shall be necessary in the sale or mortgage deed, which consent shall be limited to the application of the proceeds of the sale or mortgage to pay off solely and exclusively the debts mentioned hereinabove, it being further agreed that after the debts are paid off such consent shall not be necessary.”

According to the history in the deed, the seven lots mentioned in the preceding clause were awarded to partners Miguel Angel Dávila and Juan R. Dávila together with other assets, in joint ownership and in a proportion of one half for each of them. It was set forth that any deficiency found in the income-tax return of the mercantile partnership for 1946 would be prorated in equal parts among the partners at the time such deficiency becomes payable, and the same agreement was made with respect to the 1947 return and up to January 31, 1948. It was stated that upon liquidation of the partnership reserves for $22,060.61 had been included in the liabilities for the payment of income-tax deficiencies for 1940 to 1945, in the understanding that in the event such deficiencies are payable the full amount thereof would be for the account of partners Miguel Angel Dávila and Angel R. Dávila, jointly and solidarily, and that partner Charles Llenza would not be bound to contribute to the payment thereof, in view of the reserves made.

[768]*768Five of the seven lots mentioned in the preceding eighth clause which are the object of this suit are Nos. 17, 18, 19, 31, and 38 of “Dávila y Llenza” development in Hato Rey. According to the deed of dissolution and the history of the registry, these lots were segregated from property No. 69, having an area of 43,199.17 square meters, situated in the ward of Hato Rey, which is subject to a mention of easement of spring or source of water and to restrictive building conditions. According to the first inscription, the five lots were recorded in joint ownership, one half for each of them, in favor of Miguel Angel Dávila and Juan R. Dá-vila, by way of adjudication upon dissolution of the partnership. It was set forth in the first inscription that the adjudication was made “subject to the conditions appearing from deed number thirty-five, executed in Río Piedras on the fifth day of March nineteen hundred and forty-eight, before Notary Edrulfo Astacio, which is fully recited in the sixth inscription of property seven thousand one hundred eleven, at folio one hundred sixty, volume one hundred ninety-five of Río Piedras.”

According to the second inscription, these lots were recorded as a result of a judicial sale in favor of José Molina, married to Manuela Nieves, as purchaser at the public sale, it having been set forth in that inscription that the same were subject to a mention of easement of spring or source of water and restrictive building conditions and to certain attachments entered. Regarding lots 19, 31, and 38, on June 21, 1950 an attachment was entered in the registry in favor of The People of Puerto Rico to .answer for income taxes for the years 1940 to 1948, José Molina having recorded subject to those attachments. On September 16, 1954 the said attachments for income taxes were cancelled in full by lapse of more than four years, since the entry was made and at the request of the present owner. , ,

[769]*769Property No. 7,111 which is mentioned in the inscription of the five lots in connection with the conditions is not related to property No. 69 from which the latter were segregated. It is a six-story building and lot situated on Georgetti Street in Río Piedras. The sixth inscription of that property reads in its pertinent part as follows:

“The Mercantile, Regular, and General Partnership ‘Dávila y Lienza,’ domiciled in Río Piedras, is the owner of this property according to the third inscription, and by deed number thirty-five executed in Río Piedras on the fifth day of March nineteen hundred and forty-eight, before Notary Edrulfo As-tacio, Miguel Ángel Dávila, Charles Lienza, and Juan R. Dávila, of full age, married, without stating to whom, civil engineers and residents of Río Piedras, in their capacity as sole partners of the Mercantile Partnership ‘Dávila y Lienza’ and managing partners thereof, proceeded to liquidate and dissolve the same. It appears from said document that the liquidation of the property showed assets of four hundred nine thousand six hundred twenty-six dollars and twenty-six cents, and liabilities of two hundred forty-eight thousand three hundred sixty-four dollars and seventy cents. The capital amounted to one hundred sixty-one thousand three hundred twenty-one dollars and fifty-six cents, divided in a proportion of fifty-seven thousand three hundred sixty-seven dollars and seventy cents for partner Miguel Ángel Dávila, fifty-four thousand six hundred eighty-seven dollars and eighty cents for partners Juan R. Dávila, and forty-nine thousand two hundred sixty-six dollars and eight cents for partner Charles Lienza. — In the deed object of this registration the property bearing this number was awarded to partners Miguel Ángel Dávila and Juan R.

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