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Gomez vs. Lipana 33 SCRA 615

OFELIA GOMEZ, as Administratrix of the Estate of the late ISIDRA GOMEZ Y AQUINO, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JOAQUIN P. LIPANA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-23214 | 1970-06-30

D E C I S I O N

MAKALINTAL, J:


The defendant-appellant, Joaquin P. Lipana, contracted two marriages: the first with Maria Loreto Ancino in 1930 and the second with Isidra Gomez y Aquino in 1935. At the time of the second marriage the first was still subsisting, which fact, however, Lipana concealed from the second wife.

On December 17, 1943 the spouses of the second marriage acquired by purchase a piece of land in Cubao, Quezon City, for the price of P3,000.00. The Torrens title for the property (Transfer Certificate No. 25289 of the Register of Deeds for Quezon City) was issued on February 1, 1944, in the name of "Joaquin Lipana married to...