Back

Victoria Garcia Vs. B. Montague

VICTORIA GARCIA, plaintiff-appellant, vs. B. MONTAGUE, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 4810 | 1909-01-13

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J.:

Victoria Garcia, a resident of Moncada, Tarlac, represented by her lawyer, filed a complaint on the 4th of June, 1907, against B. Montague, alleging that in December, 1904, in view of the asseverations of the latter that he belonged to the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, and that he would marry the petitioner in accordance with the rites of said church she engaged to become his wife. Believing his assurance that it was customary with Americans first to celebrate a civil marriage and immediately afterwards a religious ceremony, she consented to the celebration of the civil marriage between them, which took...