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De Cardenas vs. Cardenas and Rinen 98 Phil 73

EULOGIA BIGORNIA DE CARDENAS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. LEONCIO CARDENAS and FLORENCIA RINEN, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-8218 | 1955-12-15

D E C I S I O N

PADILLA, J.:

This is an action to annul the marriage entered into by and between Leoncio Cardenas and Florencia Riñen upon the ground that when said marriage was entered into on 19 April 1948, the plaintiff to whom he had been married on 10 July 1927 was still alive.

In their answer the defendants plead that they have no knowledge or information as to the marriage performed by Minister George W. Wright on 10 July 1927 uniting Leoncio Cardenas and Eulogia Bigornia as husband and wife, nor as to the authority of the minister to solemnize the marriage; that Leoncio Cardenas and Eulogia Bigornia lived together for sometime,...