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F. Manguiat vs. T.Manguiat

FELISA MANGUIAT, complainant, vs. ATTY. TIRSO L. MANGUIAT, respondent.

A.C. No. 880 | 1974-10-31

R E S O L U T I O N

MAKALINTAL, C.J

Respondent Tirso L. Manguiat is charged with malpractice for having allegedly demanded and actually collected from complainant Felisa Manguiat attorney's fees for legal services that should have been gratuitously rendered, since the respondent acted in his capacity as a government-employed legal officer of the Department of Social Welfare of the City of Manila.

Sometime in 1966 the services of the respondent in said capacity were sought and obtained by the complainant to assist the latter's niece in prosecuting a case of falsification then pending before the Fiscal's Office in Lucena City, Quezon....