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Eustaquia Tenefrancia Vs. Rosa Abaja 087 Phil 139

Testate estate of the late Paula Toray. EUSTAQUIA TENEFRANCIA, petitioner-appellant, vs. ROSA ABAJA, oppositor-appellee.

G.R. No. L-2415 | 1950-07-31

D E C I S I O N


REYES, J.:

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental denying probate of a will.

The will in question purports to have been executed in August, 1943, by Paula Toray, who died the following month. Presented for probate by one of the legatees, the herein appellant Eustaquia Tenefrancia, it was opposed by Rosa Abaja, daughter of the deceased Eulogia Abaja, instituted heir in an earlier will executed by the same testatrix and her deceased husband. The lower court disallowed the will on the ground that it was not executed in accordance with law in that the attestation clause did not...