His juridical ideas and inclinations were clearly expressed in the judgments he rendered as a President Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice, amongst which were:
a) To secure that the victims of unjustified damage could have a legitimate remedy.
b) To increase the controlling powers of the Supreme Court of Justice, as a Court of Higher instance, in order to determine if “the facts of the matter, as have been sustained by the judges of First Instance, show the juridical characteristics of serious offence, in order to allow such jurisdiction to assess, not only its intrinsic nature, but to evaluate at the same time the degree of the victims’ negligence and the offender’s breach.
c) A firm and irrevocable purpose of annulling, on the basis of lack of legal grounds, those decisions based on inaccurate, vague and generalized arguments that will hinder the possibility of the Supreme Court in confirming if the relationship between employee and constituent, when admitted by the judgment on the subject matter, was properly defined.
d) Possibility of repairing the moral damage caused by the breach of contract, non withstanding the provisions of Article 1150 of the Civil Code
e) Possibility that the motion on civil liability against the owner of a ship could be enforced by the person sending the goods based on a transport contract, irrespectively of the rights given to the addressee to execute this same action.
f) Permanent concern for the upkeep of the defense rights in all its legitimate expressions.
g) Absolute rejection to every type of maneuvers or legal incidents filed with the intention of obstructing the normal course of justice.
h) Absolute rejection to any claim lacking not only legal grounds but also a moral foundation.
i) Application of the theory of appearance in tort law.
j) Application of the theory of the adequate cause, noting that the judges at first instance should be appreciating with entire freedom according to the specific circumstances of each case, if this event had develop an important role in the cause of the damage, in order to be retained as a determining clause of the damage.
k) In brief, The High Court of the Dominican Republic, during the twelve years of President Herrera Billini, set a precedent of a high moral and juridical value in interpreting of he laws concerning testament, divorces, land delimitations, contesting registered rights, disciplinary judgments, preliminary instruction general embargoes, legal fees, repression trials in all matters, correctional, criminal and minor offences trials, administrative matters amongst others..
Dr. Hipólito Herrera Billini (1903-1965)
