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Florencia M. Somosot vs. Atty. Elias A. Pontevedra

FLORENCIA M. SOMOSOT, Complainant, versus ATTY. ELIAS A. PONTEVEDRA, Respondent.

A.C. No. 4285 | 2006-05-02

THIRD DIVISION

R E S O L U T I O N 


QUISUMBING, J.

On July 28, 1994, complainant Florencia M. Somosot (now deceased) filed a verified complaint [1] against respondent Atty. Elias A. Pontevedra for neglect of duty and for professional misconduct for unlawfully keeping money belonging to her. 

It appears that complainant was one of the plaintiffs in Civil Case No. X-98, for reconveyance and recovery of possession, pending before the Regional Trial Court of Negros Occidental, Branch 59, San Carlos City. Respondent was complainant's counsel of record. 

On January 15, 1991, the trial court ordered the parties to submit their...