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Hernandez, et al vs. Navarro, et al

CELESTINO C. HERNANDEZ, RUBEN C. HERNANDEZ, PORFIRIA H. VALENCIA, FRANCISCO C. HERNANDEZ, LAURA H. CORNEJO, MAXIMO C. HERNANDEZ, JR., MAR. ROSARIO C. HERNANDEZ, LOURDES DOMINGO HERNANDEZ, PRISCILLA DOMINGO HERNANDEZ, and JACINTO DOMINGO HERNANDEZ, petitio

G.R. No. L-28296 | 1972-11-24

D E C I S I O N


BARREDO, J:

Petition for mandamus to compel respondent judge to give due course to the appeal of the petitioners from the order of said respondent admitting to probate the alleged will of the deceased Maximo C. Hernandez, Sr., father of petitioners, the legalization of which petitioners had opposed. Petitioners also question the appointment, included in the same order, of respondent Dolores Mojica Vda. de Hernandez as executrix with the will annexed.

Main ground of the petition is that respondent judge disapproved their appeal notwithstanding that they had timely filed their notice of appeal, appeal bond and record on...