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Jayme vs. Bualan

ANDRES JAYME, plaintiff-appellee, vs. BUALAN, ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 37386 | 1933-09-19

D E C I S I O N

MALCOLM, J:

This case furnishes eloquent proof of how clients, in this instance ignorant Bagobos, can be passed on from lawyer to lawyer in a seemingly endless treadmill of litigation without ever reaching finality and a vindication of legal rights. The particular judgment appealed from by the Bagobos purported to award their former attorney P15,000 for professional services.

In 1921, Bagobo Bualan and companions secured Attorneys Juan A. Sarenas and Domingo Braganza to represent them in a case against one Ciriaco Lizada for the possession of land. The action was successfully maintained in the Court of First Instance and...