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Lorenzo Tanada, et al. Vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

LORENZO TANADA, ROSARIO M. DELGADO and CONCEPCION DELGADO, substituted heirs of the deceased plaintiff Francisco A. Delgado, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and JOSE H. TECSON, respondents.

G.R. No. L-40007 | 1985-10-23

D E C I S I O N


ESCOLIN, J.:

This is a petition for review of the decision of the then Court of Appeals, which reduced the attorney's fees adjudicated by the Court of First Instance of Nueva Ecija in favor of petitioners.

Petitioner Lorenzo M. Tañada and the late Francisco A. Delgado were former partners in the law firm

"Delgado and Tañada", while petitioners Modesto T. Flores and Santiago Macapagal, together with Alberto Dizon and Gregorio Fernandez, Jr., now both deceased, were assistant attorneys in said law office. Sometime in August 1940, Narcisa Mendoza, now deceased, retained the services of the law firm to represent her in Civil...