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Tolentino, Felicidad vs. Victoria C. Mangapit

FELICIDAD TOLENTINO, complainant, vs. ATTY. VICTORIA C. MANGAPIT, respondent.

A.C. No. 2251 | 1983-09-29

D E C I S I O N


CONCEPCION, JR., J.:

This is an administrative case for disbarment against Atty. Victoria C. Mangapit, a member of the Philippine Bar for unethical practice and flagrant violation of her oath as a lawyer.

The records of the case show that Atty. Victoria C. Mangapit's services were engaged by complainant for the purpose of reopening Civil Case No. 2654 in order to present NBI agent Segundo Tabayoyong to testify in the genuineness of signatures appearing in some questioned documents inasmuch as complainant's lawyers Attys. Eligir and Bautista were not available; that it was their agreement that complainant and her other...