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Nenita de Vera Suroza vs. Reynaldo P. Honrado 110 SCRA 388

NENITA DE VERA SUROZA, complainant, vs. JUDGE REYNALDO P. HONRADO of the Court of First Instance of Rizal, Pasig Branch 25 and EVANGELISTA S. YUIPCO, Deputy Clerk of Court, respondents.

A.M. No. 2026 | 1981-12-19

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J.:

Should disciplinary action be taken against respondent judge for having admitted to probate a will, which on its face is void because it is written in English, a language not known to the illiterate testatrix, and which is probably a forged will because she and the attesting witnesses did not appear before the notary as admitted by the notary himself?

That question arises under the pleadings filed in the testate case and in the certiorari case in the Court of Appeals which reveal the following tangled strands of human relationship.

Mauro Suroza, a corporal in the 45th Infantry of the U.S. Army (Philippine Scouts),...