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Sinforoso De Gala Vs. Pedro De Gala, Et Al. 042 Phil 771

SINFOROSO DE GALA, plaintiff-appellant, vs. PEDRO DE GALA ET AL., defendants. JOSEFA ALABASTRO and GENEROSO DE GALA, appellees.

G.R. No. 15756 | 1922-02-15

D E C I S I O N


JOHNSON, J.:

This action was commenced in the Court of First Instance of the Province of Tayabas on the 29th day of August, 1917. Its purpose was to compel the defendant Pedro de Gala to recognize the plaintiff as his natural son. The complaint alleged that the plaintiff had been in the uninterrupted possession of the status of a natural child of the defendant, justified by the conduct of the latter and that of his family. To that complaint the defendant interposed a general denial.

Upon the issue thus presented the cause was brought on for trial, at the close of which the Honorable Jose C. Abreu, judge, rendered a...