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Germann & co. vs. Donaldson, Sim & Co.

GERMANN & CO., plaintiffs-appellees, vs. DONALDSON, SIM & CO., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 439 | 1901-11-11

D E C I S I O N


LADD, J.:

This is an incident of want of personality of the plaintiff's attorney. The action is to recover a sum claimed to be due for freight under a charter party. It was brought by virtue of a general power for suits, executed in Manila October 27, 1900, by Fernando Kammerzell, and purporting to be a substitution in favor of several attorneys of powers conferred upon Kammerzell in an instrument executed in Berlin, Germany, February 5, 1900, by Max Leonard Tornow, the sole owner of the business carried on in Berlin and Manila under the name of Germann & Co. The first-named instrument was authenticated by a notary with...