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[4/5] In Re: Almacen vs. Yaptinchay

[4/5] IN THE MATTER OF PROCEEDING FOR DISCIPLINARY ACTION AGAINST ATTY. VICENTE RAUL ALMACEN in L-27654, ANTONIO H. CALERO vs. VIRGINIA Y. YAPTINCHAY.

G.R. No. L-27654 | 1970-02-18

"You assigned it (the property involved) to one who has no better right to it than the burglar to his plunder. It seems like robbing a widow to reward a fraud, with the court acting as a fence, or umpire, watchful and vigilant that the widow got not undue advantage. . . . The point is this: Is a proper motive for the decisions discoverable, short of assigning to the court emasculated intelligence, or a constipation of morals and faithlessness to duty? If the state bar association, or a committee chosen from its rank, or the faculty of the University Law School, aided by the researches of its hundreds of bright, active students, or if any...