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PILAR SALUNGA ET AL,, PLAINTIFFS AND APPELLANTS, VS. EMI- LIANO C. EVANGELISTA ET AL., DEFENDANTS AND APPELLEES,

PILAR SALUNGA ET AL,, PLAINTIFFS AND APPELLANTS, VS. EMI- LIANO C. EVANGELISTA ET AL., DEFENDANTS AND APPELLEES,

G. R. No. 5314 | 1911-10-02

D E C I S I O N
 
ARELLANO, C.J.:
 
The object sought by the complaint filed in this suit, on February 18,1907, is the annulment of the partition of an estate, agreed upon and signed on July 8,1895, and recorded in a public instrument on October 23 of the same year.
 
The estate is shown to have been left by Santiago Canciller Evangelista, who, during' his lifetime, contracted three marriages;.one, on October 3, 1863, with Eusebia Sangco; another, on October 6, 1877, with Antonia Alonso; and the third, on November 8, 1886, with Pilar Salunga.
 
The first marriage did not last long, for Eusebia Sangco died on January 18,...