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Flores, Leoncio, et al. Vs. Vicente V. Duque

LEONCIO FLORES and GLORIA PERALTA FLORES, complainants, vs. ATTORNEY VICENTE V. DUQUE, respondent.

A.C. No. 1199 | 1983-03-18

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J.:

This administrative complaint for disbarment demonstrates anew that a member of the bar cannot be too careful in the performance of the duties owed his client. Here, Attorrey Vicente V. Duque was charged with failing to notify his clients, now complainants, Leoncio Flores and Gloria Peralta, of the date of the hearing set for July 1, 1971 and to be present at such hearing, as a result of which, with both counsel and the parties being absent, the case was dismissed by the trial court.

In the answer of respondent, he put in issue the truth of the allegations against him stating that it was Inocencio Peralta,...