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In Re: Sotera Barrientos. Samuel Perry vs. Vicente Elio

In re the estate of the deceased SOTERA BARRIENTOS. SAMUEL PERRY, petitioner, respondent-appellant, vs. VICENTE ELIO, petitioner, respondent-appellee.

G.R. No. 9089 | 1915-01-05

D E C I S I O N


ARAULLO, J.:

Upon the decease of Sotera Barrientos, a resident of the municipality of Mambajao, Province of Misamis, 68 years of age, the wife of Samuel Perry in her third marriage, in the said municipality on August 31, 1912, two documents were presented in the Court of First Instance of the said province, each of which, according to those who respectively presented them, was the last will and testament of the said deceased.

The first document was filed on September 4, 1912, that is, four days after the death of the testatrix, by Vicente Elio, son of her first husband, and her brother-in-law; and the second on December...