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iliong & Co. Vs. Silvina Chio-Taysan

SUILIONG & Co., as liquidators of The Yek Tong Lim Fire, Marine, and Insurance Co., Ltd., plaintiffs-appellees, vs. SILVINA CHIO-TAYSAN, defendant.----FRANCISCA JOSE, intervener-appellant.

G.R. No. 4777 | 1908-11-11

D E C I S I O N


CARSON, J.:

Avelina Caballero, deceased, owned during her lifetime a certain tract of land, which was duly inscribed in her name in the land registry of the city of Manila. On March 27, 1903, she borrowed from Francisca Jose, the intervener and appellant in this action, 1,000 pesos, Mexican currency, and turned over her title deeds to this tract of land to the lender as security for the loan, but no entry touching the transaction was noted in the land registry.

Avelina Caballero died on the 5th day of June, 1903, and thereafter Silvina Chio-Taysan, the defendant in this action, instituted in the Court of First Instance...