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Mendoza vs Mercado

ARSENIO V. MENDOZA, petitioner, vs. ARSENIO MERCADO, respondent.

A.C. No. 1484 | 1980-06-19

D E C I S I O N 


AQUINO, J.: 

On July 1, 1975, Arsenio V. Mendoza filed a complaint, charging Arsenio Mercado, an assistant provincial fiscal of Bulacan, with professional incompetence because in 1957 he notarized a deed of donation mortis causa which in 1974 was declared void by the Court of First Instance of Bulacan for not having been executed in the form of a last will and testament. 

In that instrument, Agueda Mendoza donated to her sister, Felisa P. Mendoza, her share in a house and lot with an area of nine hundred seventy-two square meters, located at Sta. Maria, Bulacan. 

Allegedly because of the nullity of the...