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Agapito Hinlo vs. Saturnina De Leon, Et Al. 018 Phil 221

AGAPITO HINLO, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SATURNINA DE LEON, administratrix of the estate of Rufino Tongoy, deceased, ET AL., defendants. SATURNINA DE LEON, appellant.

G.R. No. L-4860 | 1911-01-07

D E C I S I O N


ARELLANO, C.J.:

Esteban Hinlo and his wife Nicasia Jamandre owed Rufino Tongoy the sum of P2,300.30, and as security for their debt gave them a mortgage on a rural property of 30 hectares in area. Esteban Hinlo on May 15,1890, and Nicasia Jamandre on June 17, 1897. Prior to their death, no suit had been instituted for the recovery of the debt. These spouses at death left five children, named Agapito, Honorato, Perfecto, Guagerio, and Encarnacion, the eldest of whom, Agapito, at the time of his mother's death in 1897, was but 19 years 3 months and 1 day old. The said legitimate children of the aforementioned spouses Hinlo...