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Jose B. Roxas, Et Al. vs. Pedro Bermudez, Et Al.

JOSE B. ROXAS and VENANCIA B. ROXAS, plaintiffs-appellees, vs. PEDRO BERMUDEZ, DOMINGA MARTIN and MR. & MRS. LORETA BERMUDEZ, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-25051 | 1968-09-30

D E C I S I O N 


ANGELES, J.: 

On appeal on purely questions of law from a decision of the trial court declaring, inter alia, that the decision rendered in a prior civil case No. 34498 between the same parties is res judicata to the present case, and in denying the admission of the third-party complaint filed by one of the defendants. 

The facts pertinent to the instant appeal, are as follows: 

On December 4, 1957, Pedro Bermudez and his sister, Loreta Bermudez, filed a complaint in the Court of First Instance of Manila, docketed as Civil Case No. 34498, against the spouses Joaquin Andrade and Estela Martinez Andrade, the...