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Casimiro Mendoza vs. Court Of Appeals

CASIMIRO MENDOZA, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS and TEOPISTA TORING TU?ACAO, respondents. Bienvenido R. Saniel, Jr. for petitioner. Domingo Antigua & Associates for private respondent.

G.R. No. 86302 | 1991-09-24

D E C I S I O N

CRUZ, J.:

The private respondent claimed she was the illegitimate daughter of Casimiro Mendoza, but the latter denied her claim. He denied it to his dying day. The trial court believed him and dismissed her complaint for compulsory recognition. The appellate court did not and reversed the judgment of the court below. Now the issue is before us on certiorari.

The complaint was filed on August 21, 1981, in the Regional Trial Court in Cebu City. Teopista Toring Tuñacao, the herein private respondent, alleged that she was born on August 20, 1930, to Brigida Toring, who was then single, and defendant Casimiro Mendoza, married at...