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United Church Board for World Min. vs.A.Sebastian

UNITED CHURCH BOARD FOR WORLD MINISTRIES, as owner of BROKENSHIRE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, petitioner, vs. HON. JUDGE ALEJANDRO E. SEBASTIAN, as Presiding Judge of the CFI of Davao del Norte, and MELENCIO B. DELENA and MAURO GEMENTIZA, as Co-Executors of the Testate Estate of DAVID JACOBSON, respondents.

G.R. No. L-34672 | 1988-03-30

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

This case is unusual because it arose not out of greed but of generosity. The only question to be resolved is the identity and eligibility of the beneficiary in the light of the pertinent constitutional provisions and the evidence of record.

David Jacobson was an American citizen who had been a resident of the Philippines for more than thirty years and up to the time of his death in 1970. 1 He left a will in which he "devised and bequeathed" to the Brokenshire Memorial Hospital 60% of his shares of stocks in the Tagdangua Plantation Co., Inc. which was incorporated under Philippine law in 1948. 2 This...