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Juan Alquigue Vs. Fortunato De Leon, Et Al.117 Phil. 519

JUAN ALQUIGUE, plaintiff-appellant, vs. FORTUNATO DE LEON and FILEMON Q. ALMAZAN, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-15059 | 1963-03-30

D E C I S I O N 


MAKALINTAL, J.: 

Plaintiff-appellant filed this case in the Court of First Instance of Leyte to recover damages, actual and moral, in the amount of P100,000.00 and attorney's fees in the amount of P5,000.00. Appellees are lawyers who, according to the complaint, rendered professional services to appellant, particularly in connection with the last will and testament of appellant's wife, Tomasa Catalan, who died on 27 April 1953. The specific allegations are that the said will was executed by the testatrix on 17 February 1951 under the direction and supervision of appellees; that for a period of two (2) years...