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Ely Chan Sa Velasco vs. Rodolfo A. Ortiz, et al.

ELY CHAN SA VELASCO, petitioner, vs. HON. RODOLFO A. ORTIZ, Judge of the Court of First Instance of Rizal, Branch XXXI, Quezon City and TAN SIM TE @ GRACE VELASCO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-51973 | 1990-04-16

D E C I S I O N


FELICIANO, J.:

In this Petition for Certiorari and Prohibition, petitioner asks us to reverse and set aside the order of respondent Judge Rodolfo A. Ortiz dated 26 July 1979, which order had granted a Motion for New Trial filed by private respondent.

The antecedent facts may be summarized in the following manner.

Private respondent Tan Sim Te was the ward of petitioner Ely Chan Sa Velasco and her husband Lorenzo Velasco. Tan Sim Te was not the daughter of Lorenzo Velasco; neither had she been formally or legally adopted by petitioner and her husband. Sometime in 1974, Lorenzo suffered paralysis of his right hand and...