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Reyes vs. Apostol

ANICIA T. REYES, plaintiff-appellant, vs. GREGORIO APOSTOL and ADELAIDA CARPIO APOSTOL, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-25375 | 1970-10-30

D E C I S I O N 


FERNANDO, J: 

In this foreclosure of mortgage suit, the lower court unable to perceive any persuasive force in five of the six special defenses set forth by defendants, now appellants curtly dismissed them as "lacking in merit." It decided in favor of plaintiffs, now appellees. Appellants would have us reverse, raising in the process a question novel in character. It is their contention that the lower court's laconic and terse disposition of such special defenses failed to abide by the constitutional command that a court of record should state in its decision clearly and distinctly the facts and the law on which it...