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Armando V. Sierra Vs. Court Of Appeals

ARMANDO V. SIERRA, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, EPIFANIA EBARLE, SOL AND ELE EBARLE, respondents.

G.R. No. 90270 | 1992-07-24

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

A promissory note is supposed to be a genuine document acknowledging a loan duly received and promising to pay the same on the date indicated in accordance with the conditions therein set forth. There is no record as there cannot be of the number of times such a promise has been fulfilled and the debt discharged. But our casebooks are replete with reports of litigations where the promissory note has been rejected and even indignantly denounced. The usual objection is that it is spurious or fabricated, or vitiated by fraud or duress or undue influence, or not reflective of the true intention of the parties.

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