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Maranan, Antonia vs. Magno T. Bueser

ANTONIA MARANAN, complainant, vs. MAGNO T. BUESER, respondent.

A.C. No. 1341 | 1983-05-17

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

Magno T. Bueser, a lawyer admitted to the bar in 1948, secured for Antonia Maranan in 1967 a judgment requiring Pascual Perez to pay Maranan P9,000 as actual and moral damages plus interest from December 6, 1961 (Maranan vs. Perez, L-22272, June 26, 1967, 20 SCRA 412, 418).

His contingent fee in that case and in a criminal case wherein he served as private prosecutor of the accused, who killed Maranan's son, amounted to P4,000.

Perez had no cash to satisfy the judgment. He was willing to convey to Maranan a parcel of registered land located at Barrio Sta. Rita, Batangas City with an area of 245 square...