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Pijuan vs. Vda. De Gurrea

TESTATE ESTATE OF THE DECEASED CARLOS GURREA Y MONASTERIO. MARCELO PIJUAN, special administrator-appellee, vs. MANUELA RUIZ VDA. DE GURREA, movant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-21917 | 1966-11-29

EN BANC

D E C I S I O N 

CONCEPCION, C.J.: 

This is an appeal, taken by Manuela Ruiz Vda. de Gurrea, from two (2) orders of the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental. 

In 1932, appellant Manuela Ruiz - hereinafter referred to as Mrs. Gurrea - and Carlos Gurrea were married in Spain, where they lived together until 1945, when he abandoned her and came, with their son Teodoro, to the Philippines. Here he lived maritally with Rizalina Perez, by whom he had two (2) children. Having been informed by her son Teodoro, years later, that his father was residing in Pontevedra, Negros Occidental, Manuela came to the Philippines, in...