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De Balmori, et.al. Vs. Sison, et.al.

ROSARIO VDA. DE BALMORI ET AL., plaintiffs-appellees, vs. CARLOS M. SISON ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-761 | 1948-03-23

D E C I S I O N

BENGZON, J:

This appeal involves another pacto de retro document allegedly concealing a real estate mortgage. Many similar disputes have heretofore passed the judicial mill, the issues having become somewhat commonplace. It is a tribute to their patience that judges do not, in utter weariness, refuse to discover the concealed pact behind the written document, holding the parties to what they have signed scienti et volenti, and thereby reducing the number of lawsuits.

The record discloses that on March 31, 1941, the following document (Exhibit A) was notarized by Carlos M. Sison and Pilar Balmori on behalf of her father...