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Lee Liong vs. Isidoro Hizola 019 Phil 57

LEE LIONG, plaintiff-appellant, vs. ISIDORO HIZOLA, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-5358 | 1911-03-16

D E C I S I O N


MAPA, J.:

The action in this case relates to a mortgage credit and is based on a public instrument executed by the defendant on the 27th of September, 1905, whereby, for the consideration of the sum of P4,358.50, which he acknowledges having received from the plaintiff, he executed in favor of the latter, as security for the payment of the said sum, a mortgage on the two agricultural properties that are described in detail in the said instrument.

The defendant does not deny the legitimacy of that instrument, but alleges that it is not the plaintiff whom he owes, but the now deceased Yong Alam, and that he owes only the...