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Vicente Garcia Valdez Vs. Maria Sotera?a Tuason040 Phil 943

VICENTE GARCIA VALDEZ, plaintiff-appellant, vs. MARIA SOTERA?A TUASON, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 14957 | 1920-03-16

D E C I S I O N

STREET, J .:

This is a petition for divorce, filed by Vicente Garcia Valdez on April 2, 1918, in the Court of First Instance of the city of Manila against his wife, Maria Soteraña Tuason Upon hearing the cause the trial judge found that the charge of adultery was not sustained by the evidence; and he refused to grant relief. The complaint was accordingly dismissed at the petitioner's costs. From this judgment the petitioner appealed.

On March 11, 1917, Act No. 2710 of the Philippine Legislature, relating to the subject of divorce, became effective in the Philippine-Islands. This enactment introduced the radical...