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Elpidio Talastas vs. Clemenco Abella

ELPIDIO TALASTAS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. CLEMENCO ABELLA, defendant- appellant.

G.R. No. L-26398 | 1968-10-25

D E C I S I O N 


CONCEPCION, J.: 

From a summary judgment of the Court of First Instance of Manila, the defendant appealed to the Court of Appeals which, subsequently, certified the case to Us, pursuant to Sections 17 and 31 of Republic Act No. 296, as amended 1 only questions of law being raised in the appeal. 

In his complaint, herein plaintiff, Elpidio Talastas, seeks the liquidation of a partnership he claims to have with defendant Clemenco Abella, as well as to recover several sums of money. In said pleading, plaintiff alleges that, sometime in September 1955, defendant and he entered into an oral contract of partnership...