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Fonacier vs. Court of Appeals 96 Phil 417

SANTIAGO A. FONACIER, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and ISABELO DE LOS REYES, Jr., respondents.

G.R. No. L-5917 | 1955-01-28

D E C I S I O N

BAUTISTA ANGELO, J.:

This case was instituted in the Court of First Instance of Manila by the Iglesia Filipina Independiente, represented by its Supreme Bishop Gerardo M. Bayaca, against Bishop Santiago A. Fonacier seeking to require the latter to render an accounting of his administration of all the temporal properties he has his possession belonging to said church and to recover the same from him on the ground that he had ceased be the Supreme Bishop of said religious organization. Bishop Isabelo de los Reyes, Jr., having been elected as Supreme Bishop after the filing of the original complaint, was later made a...