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Domingo Reyes, Et Al. Vs. Sor Efigenia Alvarez

DOMINGO REYES ET AL., petitioners-appellants, vs. THE MOTHER SUPERIOR OF THE BEATERIO DE LA COMPA?IA DE JESUS, SOR EFIGENIA ALVAREZ, respondent-appellee.

G.R. No. L-3957 | 1907-10-03

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

On the 20th of March, 1907, the married couple of Domingo Reyes and Nicolasa Gagalangan petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus to be served by the sheriff of Manila on Sor Efigenia Alvarez, the mother superior of the Beaterio de la Compañia de Jesus, on the ground that she had deprived Valentina Reyes, aged 15, daughter of the applicants, of her liberty by refusing to deliver her to her parents, and threatening to sue them for damages if they insisted in claiming the said girl.

The corresponding writ having been issued to the sheriff with orders to summon the respondent, the mother superior of the...