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Solarte vs Pugeda

EMELITA SOLARTE, complainant, vs. ATTY. TEOFILO F. PUGEDA, respondent.

A.C. No. 4751 | 2000-07-31

R E S O L U T I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:

Before us is an administrative charge for gross misconduct, filed by complainant Emelita Solarte against a member of the bar, respondent Atty. Teofilo F. Pugeda. Respondent was a municipal judge in the 1960s when, as notary public ex officio, he allegedly notarized certain documents involving the sale of land situated in Cavite, particularly two deeds of sale dated circa 1964 and 1967 involving parcels of land located at General Trias.

The lots belonged to Catalino Nocon, and was the subject of an extrajudicial partition made by Catalino and his children. One of the children, Herminia, was not a...