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C. Cadano, et al. vs. J. Cadano

CONCHITA CADANO, accompanied by her husband TITO LOPEZ and GERARDO CADANO, plaintiffs-appellees, vs. JUAN CADANO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-34998 | 1973-01-11

D E C I S I O N

ANTONIO, J:

The only issue submitted for judicial review is the jurisdictional authority of the Court of First Instance of Leyte in Civil Case No. 3417 to revive its judgment rendered in an earlier case (Civil Case No. 856) approving a compromise agreement dividing the conjugal partnership properties, between the plaintiffs as heirs of their deceased mother and the defendant as surviving spouse, which agreement although formally submitted by the parties to the court does not bear the signature of either defendant Juan Cadano or his counsel.

The present case has its inception, in the action instituted with the Court of...