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Demetria Flores Vs. Rehabilitation Finance Corp. 094 Phil 451

DEMETRIA FLORES, plaintiff-appellant, vs. REHABILITATION FINANCE CORPORATION, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-5798 | 1954-02-26

D E C I S I O N


BENGZON, J.:

The case. On August 2, 1948, Demetria Flores filed a complaint in the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental to annul the mortgage executed in September, 1938 by K. Ishiwata (then appellant's common-law husband) in favor of the National Investment Board, and also to cancel the certificate of sale subsequently made on foreclosure, to the Agricultural and Industrial Bank. She prayed either for the return of the land or the payment of P250,000 plus interest and other items of indemnity.

After due hearing, the court absolved the defendant (successor to the Agricultural and Industrial Bank), sustaining the...