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Pascuala Sotto Pahang vs. Filemon Sotto

PASCUALA SOTTO PAHANG, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FILEMON SOTTO, now deceased, substituted by Marcelo Sotto, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-21175 | 1968-07-15

D E C I S I O N 


SANCHEZ, J.: 

Suit for compulsory recognition as natural child. 1 Defendant father opposed. The judgment below went for plaintiff child. Defendant - thru one of the guardians - Suga Sotto Yuvienco - appealed. 2 

To be decided by this Court is whether, upon the facts of record and the applicable law, we should give our imprimatur to the judgment below declaring Pascuala Sotto Pahang as an acknowledged natural child of Filemon Sotto. 

The background facts are these: 

In 1909, Filemon Sotto started courting Remedios Duterte, then a beauty queen in Cebu. 3 It was in the house of Remedios' cousin Romulo Agas...