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De Mendoza vs. Pacheco

Intestate estate of the deceased Baldomero Cosme. ROSARIO COSME DE MENDOZA, administratrix-appellee, vs. JANUARIO PACHECO and RAYMUNDO CORDERO, sureties-appellants.

G.R. No. 43351 | 1937-02-26

D E C I S I O N


LAUREL, J:

The facts in this case are not disputed. Manuel Soriano was former administrator of the estate of Baldomero Cosme in civil case No. 5494, Court of First Instance of Laguna. To assure faithful performance of his duties as such administrator, he filed a bond for P5,000, with the herein appellants, Januario Pacheco and Raymundo Cordero, as sureties. Soriano's account, upon approval, showed him indebted to the estate in the sum of P23,603.21. Unable to turn this amount over to the estate upon demand of Rosario Cosme, the new administratrix, the lower court ordered the execution of his bond on November 4, 1932,...