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LAKTAW vs PAGLINAWAN

PEDRO SERRANO LAKTAW, plaintiff-appellant, vs. MAMERTO PAGLINAWAN, defendant-appellee. Perfecto Gabriel for appellant. Felix Ferrer and Crossfield and O'Brien for appellee.

G.R. No. L-11937 | 1918-04-01


Republic of the Philippines
SUPREME COURT
Manila

EN BANC


 ARAULLO, J.:

In the complaint presented in the Court of First Instance of the City of Manila on February 20, 1915, it was alleged: (1) That the plaintiff was, according to the laws regulating literary properties, the registered owner and author of a literary work entitled Diccionario Hispano-Tagalog (Spanish-Tagalog Dictionary) published in the City of Manila in 1889 by the printing establishment La Opinion, and a copy of which was attached to the complaint, as Exhibit A; (2) that the defendant, without the consent of the plaintiff, reproduced said literary work, improperly copied...