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R. Marino Corpus vs. Miguel Cuaderno, Sr.

R. MARINO CORPUS, plaintiff-appellant, vs. MIGUEL CUADERNO, SR., defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-16969 | 1966-04-30

D E C I S I O N 


MAKALINTAL, J.: 

This is a suit for damages commenced in the Court of First Instance of Manila, where plaintiff asked for half a million pesos and defendant, on his counterclaim, for one and a half million. After trial the court dismissed the complaint and awarded P1,000.00 to defendant. Plaintiff appealed directly to Us in view of the amount claimed by him. 

During the time pertinent to this case defendant was Governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines. On January 13, 1949 Corpus was appointed Economist in the Department of Economic Research of said bank. Thereafter he received promotions in position and...