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EMILIA ALZUA AND IGNACIO ARNALOT, PLAINTIFFS AND APPELLANTS, VS. E. FINLEY JOHNSON, DEFENDANT AND APPELLEE.

EMILIA ALZUA AND IGNACIO ARNALOT, PLAINTIFFS AND APPELLANTS, VS. E. FINLEY JOHNSON, DEFENDANT AND APPELLEE.

G. R. No. 7317 | 1912-01-31

D E C I S I O N
 
CARSON, J.:
 
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Manila sustaining a demurrer to the complaint filed in this action on the ground that the facts stated therein do not constitute a cause of action.

A copy of the complaint, omitting the voluminous exhibits thereto attached, is set out in full in the margin, and for convenience of reference will be identified as marginal note A.[1]

The complaint charges the defendant, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, with corruption and misconduct in office of the gravest character. The damages which plaintiff Alzua...