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Fred J. Legare Et Al. Vs. Antonia Cuerques 034 Phil 221

FRED J. LEGARE ET AL., plaintiffs-appellees, vs. ANTONIA CUERQUES, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 8135 | 1916-03-13

D E C I S I O N


ARELLANO, C. J.:

These proceedings relate to the civil status of a boy and a girl, both unquestionably the children of Antonia Cuerques, a resident of Iligan, district of Lanao, Moro Province. The girl is named Caridad Cuerques and under this name she was registered in the civil register of births kept by said municipality of Iligan as having been born on September 24, 1902, and in the church baptismal register of the parish of Iligan, as born on the date just mentioned "at half past two in the afternoon, to whom," says the parish priest, "I gave the name of Caridad Cuerques, she being a natural daughter of Antonia...