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Uy Soo Lim Vs. Benito Tan Unchuan 038 Phil 552

UY SOO LIM, plaintiff-appellant, vs. BENITO TAN UNCHUAN, FRANCISCA PASTRANO and BASILIO CEFRANO UY BUNDAN, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. 12605 | 1918-09-07

D E C I S I O N


FISHER, J .:

This is an appeal by plaintiff upon the law and the facts, from a Judgment of the Court of First Instance of Cebu dismissing on the merits his action for the annulment of a contract by the terms of which he sold to the defendant Francisca Pastrano all his interest in the estate of the late Santiago Pastrano Uy Toco.

The material facts as found by the trial court, whose findings are fully supported by the evidence, are that at the age of about thirteen Santiago Pastrano Uy Toco, a Chinese, came from China to reside in the Philippine Islands. He was then unmarried. On August 2, 1882, he married Candida...