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Vicente Diaz Vs. Ruperto Kapunan 045 Phil 482

VICENTE DIAZ, complainant, vs. RUPERTO KAPUNAN, respondent.

UNAV G.R. No. | 1923-12-08

D E C I S I O N


MALCOLM, J .:

This action for malpractice brought by Vicente Diaz against Attorney Ruperto Kapunan, has to do with the conduct of Attorney Kapunan during the legal proceedings which followed the business troubles of Vicente Diaz and Secundino de Mendezona, and particularly relates to the conduct of Attorney Kapunan in civil case No. 2098 of the Court of First Instance of Leyte. The ultimate question on which we would concentrate attention concerns the agreement between Diaz and Kapunan at the time of the sale of the property of Mendezona, whereby Kapunan, on the promise of Diaz to pay him P1,000, agreed to desist from...