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Emilio Gonzalez La O Vs. Yek Tong Lin Fire & Marine Ins., Co.055 Phil 386

EMILIO GONZALEZ LA O, plaintiff-appellee, vs. THE YEK TONG LIN FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD., defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 33131 | 1930-12-13

EN BANC

D E C I S I O N 


VILLAMOR, J.

This is an action to recover of the defendant the Yek Tong Lin Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., the amount of two insurance policies totalling P100,000 upon leaf tobacco belonging to the plaintiff, which was damaged by the fire that destroyed the building on Soler Street No. 188, where said tobacco was stored, on January 11, 1928. 

The defendant filed a general and specific denial of each and every allegation of the complaint, set up three special defenses, and prayed to be absolved from the complaint with costs against the plaintiff. 

After the case was tried, the court below...