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Lieng vs. Encarnacion [MORELAND, J., concurring]

SY JOC LIENG, SY YOC CHAY, SY JUI NIU and SY CHUA NIU, plaintiffs, appellees-appellants, v. PETRONILA ENCARNACION, GREGORIO SY QUIA, PEDRO SY QUIA, JUAN SY QUIA and GENEROSO MENDOZA SY QUIA, Defendants, appellants-appellees. Bishop & O’Brien, for plaintiffs, appellees and appellants. Rosado, Sanz & Opisso, M. Legaspi, and Ledesma & Sumulong, for defendants, appellants and appellees.

G.R. No. 4718 | 1910-03-19

MORELAND, J., concurring:

The decision of this case will be very far-reaching in its results. It is of the utmost importance to a great many families and to many large business interests in these Islands. It determines whether designing persons in China are to be permitted upon doubtful evidence to destroy or, at least, render utterly useless the protection which property ought to receive in the country where it is created.

A considerable part of the business of the Philippine Islands is conducted by Chinaman, natives of China. They are prominent participants in substantially every department of industry of the Islands. Many of them are...