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Goitia vs. Rueda [DECISION]

ELOISA GOITIA DE LA CAMARA, plaintiff-appellant, vs. JOSE CAMPOS RUEDA, defendant-appellee. Eduardo Gutierrez Repide and Felix Socias for appellant. Sanz, Opisso and Luzuriaga for appellee.

G.R. No. 11263 | 1916-11-02

Republic of the Philippines
SUPREME COURT
Manila
 
EN BANC
 
D E C I S I O N 
 
TRENT, J.: 
 
This is an action by the wife against her husband for support outside of the conjugal domicile. From a judgment sustaining the defendants demurrer upon the ground that the facts alleged in the complaint do not state a cause of action, followed by an order dismissing the case after the plaintiff declined to amend, the latter appealed. 
 
It was urged in the first instance, and the court so held, that the defendants' cannot be compelled to support the plaintiff, except in his own house, unless it be by virtue of a...