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Victoria Hidalgo Vda. De Carrero Vs. Manufacturers Life Insurance Co. 087 Phil 460

VICTORIA HIDALGO VDA. DE CARRERO, ET AL., plaintiffs-appellants, vs. THE MANUFACTURERS LIFE INSURANCE CO., defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-3032 | 1950-10-10

D E C I S I O N


TUASON, J.:

The question posed by this appeal is identical with that decided recently (August 30, 1950) in Paz Lopez Constantino vs. Asia Life Insurance Co., G. R. No. L-1670, supra, p. 248. In fact, counsel for appellants herein tell us that the Asia Life Insurance cases have been filed as a test case for the case at bar and others of similar nature, adding that if the Statham doctrine is upheld in the test case "judgment here must perforce be affirmed."

The parties submitted a stipulation of facts in the lower court, the pertinent paragraphs of which are as follows:

"That the plaintiffs are of legal age and residents...