Isabel Pablo Blas, as Administratrix of the Estate of Dolores Flores Pablo v. Jose Q. Talabera

Jose Q. Talabera brought this action in the Island Court of Guam to obtain specific performance of a contract to convey real property. Named defendant was Isabel Pablo Bias, administratrix of the estate of the asserted vendor, Dolores Flores Pablo.

The real property in question, a piece of land located in the District of Mongmong, Municipality of Sinajana, Guam, and known as Lot No. 1120, was owned prior to 1940 by the late Dolores Flores Pablo. She died on August 21, 1941. On June 13, 1945, her daughter, Isabel Pablo Bias, appellant herein, petitioned the Island Court of Guam for letters of administration, which letters subsequently issued.

While the probate proceedings were pending, appellee Talabera petitioned the Island Court of Guam for a decree directing appellant in her capacity as administratrix to convey a portion of Lot No. 1120 to him. In his petition Talabera alleged that he had entered into a written contract with Dolores Flores Pablo, that in it she had contracted to convey a portion of Lot No. 1120 to him, and that he had given her the agreed consideration of sixty dollars. He also alleged that the written contract had been lost during the course of the war with…