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US vs Secundino Mendezona

THE UNITED STATES, complainant-appellant, vs. SECUNDINO MENDEZONA, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 873 | 1903-02-10

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

On the 14th of January, 1902, counsel for the bank (Spanish-Philippine Bank) filed a complaint charging Don Secundino Mendezona with the crime of estafa upon the ground that he, as manager of the firm of Mendezona & Co., on the 5th day of January, 1900, received from said Spanish-Philippine Bank the sum of $300,000, offering as security among other property the building known as the procuration house of the Franciscan Friars, this offer being contained in a letter addressed to the management of the bank; that on the 19th of February following, of the same year, Mendezona by another letter asked and obtained a...