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La Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas Vs. Mateo Trinchera

LA COMPANIA GENERAL DE TABACOS DE FILIPINAS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. MATEO TRINCHERA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-3368 | 1907-03-07

D E C I S I O N


WILLARD, J.:

The complaint contained the following allegation:

"1.Que la demandante es una sociedad mercantil debidamente establecida en estas Islas con arreglo a las leyes vigentes en las mismas, teniendo establecida una de sus agencias en Tacloban, Leyte, Islas Filipinas."

The answer denied each and every one of the allegations contained in said paragraph 1 of the complaint. There was thus put in issue the question as to the juridical personality of the plaintiff. No evidence was offered at the trial to show that it was a mercantile partnership or a civil partnership, or that it had ever acquired any personality...