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Amado B. Parre?o Vs. Hon. James P. Mcgranery 092 Phil 791

AMADO B. PARRE?O, plaintiff-appellant, vs. HON. JAMES P. MCGRANERY, Attorney General of the United States, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-4263 | 1953-03-12

D E C I S I O N


TUASON, J.:

This is an appeal from an order of Honorable Eduardo D. Enriquez, Judge of the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental, dismissing the complaint on the grounds that the court had no jurisdiction of the person of the defendant and of the subject matter of the action.

The suit was brought by Amado B. Parreño against the Philippine Alien Property Administrator, later substituted by the Attorney General of the United States, to collect the sum of P13,063 out of the proceeds of real and personal properties of Kokichi Ishiwata, a Japanese national, which had been vested in and transferred to the...