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 29 OCTOBER TEP. M, 1907. Oilion'o! t Court.  U. & commenced was filed on behalf of the daughter Mafia,  herself to be a citizen of Spain. The only defendants made to the bill were her sister Petrouila, Burset and. his wife, Palmer and his wife, Oarzot and Fuertes, and several others, who it was alleged had acquired an interest in the property sold by the mother to Burset and by him tranderred as above statod. Demurrers were filed by some of the defendants. The eourt allowed the bill to be amended, and ordered teat as amended it be rewritten. In substance the bill, as rewritten, alleged the death of the father, the leaving of the three minor  herseft included, thedeath of the brother, and-the taking by the mother of the prelimina prohato steps to administer the property, and he death of the mother. It alleged that at the time of his death the father had left certain lroperty, which was specifically described, the property thus described being only that which had been lxnsferr to the mother by virtue of the goement. It was alleged that the complainant w the owner of an undivided haft. of the property thus deribed as heir of her father and brother, and "tEat the said property was separate property of said Jo Maria Rio, theretofore derived by inheritance from his father and mother and by purchase from his sisters with his separate timds." The bill then with great amplitude alleged a conspiracy and combina- tion between the mother and sister Petrouila to defraud the complainant by obtaining a title to the property deseribed in Order to benefit the children of the second marriage, and charged that the lawyers 'Landr0n' and Cuadra, as parties to this conspiracy, had united with the mother and sister by de- ceit and fraud to secure the agreement, concealed or had mis- represented its contents, and, in furtherance of the same con- spiracy, prosecuted the proceedings in the courts of Porto Rico. It then alleged teat in execution of the said conspiracy the mother had sold the property transferred to her after the decree putting the title in her name had been rendeM by the District Court; teat Burset, the purchaser from her, and an those holding under him. were cognizant of the fraud and held

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