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De Bough vs. Rocha, et al.

TARCELA VDA. DE BOUGH, plaintiff-appellee, vs. NARCISO ROCHA, JOSE RAMIREZ and REMEDIOS RAMIREZ, defendants-appellants. TARCELA VDA. DE BOUGH, plaintiff-appellee, vs. NARCISO ROCHA, administrador de los bienes relictos de la finada Matilde Cantiveros and

G.R. Nos. L-23224 & L-23479 | 1971-11-29

D E C I S I O N


MAKALINTAL, J:

This appeal from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Leyte, rendered jointly in its Civil Cases Nos. 161 and 163, was originally taken to the Court of Appeals but subsequently certified to this Court, only questions of law being involved.
Sometime in July of 1935 one Matilde Cantiveros died intestate in Carigara, Leyte. She was survived by her husband, Bruno Modesto, but left neither ascendant nor descendant. On October 12 of the same year Bruno Modesto filed an intestate proceeding in the Court of First Instance of Leyte (Sp. Proc. No. 2515), praying that he be named administrator of the estate...