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Coro vs. Nasayao

MOISES G. CORO, PETITIONER, VS. MONTANO B. NASAYAO, RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 235361 | 2019-11-16

DECISION
 
INTING, J.:
 
The Court has held in a number of cases that forgery cannot be presumed and must be proved by clear, positive and convincing evidence. The burden of proof lies on the party alleging forgery to establish his/her case by a preponderance of evidence, or evidence which is of greater weight or more convincing than that which is offered in opposition to it. In this case, as properly observed by the lower courts. other than his own declaration that the signatures on the 1963 Deed of Sale were forged, herein petitioner failed to present any evidence to corroborate his claim.[1]

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