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Remedios Jacinto Vs. Santiago Mercado 047 Phil 668

In re will of Lupo Mercado, deceased. REMEDIOS JACINTO, widow of Mercado, petitioner-appellant, vs. SANTIAGO MERCADO, opponent-appellee.

G.R. No. 23392 | 1925-03-18

D E C I S I O N


OSTRAND, J .:

This an appeal from an order of the Court of First Instance of Rizal denying a petition for the probate of the last will and testament of the deceased Lupo Mercado.

The will is executed in the Spanish language and is typewritten on four sheets of ordinary legal size typewriting paper. As is usual with typewritten documents, the writing appears on only one page of each sheet and the pages used are numbered consecutively "uno," "dos," "tres" and "cuatro." The attestation clause states, among other things, that the document "consta de tres hojas enumeradas correlativamente 'uno,' 'dos' y 'tres' aparte de la...