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Appellant was prosecuted for nonpayment of the cedula or poll tax under section 1439, in connection with section 2718, of the Revised Administrative Code. After due trial, he was sentenced to suffer imprisonment for five days, and to pay the costs. From this judgment he appealed,
On December 18, 1929, the plaintiff and the defendant entered into a written contract whereby, the latter was appointed as agent to sell the former's gasoline and oil products in the City of Cebu, and to manage the office in the gasoline station or building constructed for the pu
This is an appeal taken by the assignee of the Involuntary Insolvency of Gabino M. Veloso from the orders of the Court of First Instance of Cebu of March 31 and April 21,1934, respectively. The first declared that the appellant had no standing or right to intervene in the intesta
Flora Castillo, one of the heirs of the deceased Manuela Perez, appealed from the order of the court of March 26, 1934, approving the amended project of partition presented by the attorney for the administrator on December 29, 1933. From the month of May, 1931, at least, these te
The plaintiff, widow of Crecenciano Moral da, brought this action against the defendant to obtain compensation for the death of her husband, under Act No. 3428, as amended by Act No. 3812. She appealed from the decision of the court dismissing her action, without costs. Crecencia
This is an appeal taken by the oppositor and coheiress Carmen Adriano from the decision of the court dated December 19, 1933, approving the referee's amended reports of July 3, and August 3, 1933, respectively, which passed upon and determined the semestral account of July 30, 19
This is an appeal taken by the respondent from the judgment of the Court of First Instance of Nueva Ecija, declaring that the petitioner obtained a plurality of 133 votes over him, and that, consequently, the said petitioner was elected legally to the office of governor of the sa
This action was brought by the plaintiffs to fecover from the defendant the sum of P41,250 plus legal interest therein, as their share of the profits in a certain business. They appealed from the judgment absolving the defendant and holding that the shares of which they claimed t
The plaintiffs brought this action to recover from the Collector of Internal Revenue the sum of P46,338.91 paid by them as income tax on certain dividends which they received from different corporations. The defendant appealed from the judgment ordering the refund of said sum to
Appellant was prosecuted for a violation of a conditional pardon under article 159 of the Revised Penal Code. Upon arraignment he pleaded not guilty, but he later withdrew that plea, with the permission of the court, and entered a plea of guilty. He was thereupon sentenced to suf
This is an appeal taken by the defendants Philippine Education Co., Inc., and. Edwin E, Elser from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Manila, the dispositive part of which reads as follows: "Wherefore, judgment is hereby rendered ordering the said defendants to pay to
This appeal concerns two criminal cases tried and decided by the Court of First Instance of Occidental Misamis and numbered 817 and 818, respectively, in the docket of that court. In case No. 817 appellant was convicted of the crime of homicide, with the mitigating circumstance o
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Manila in an action to recover from the defendant-appellee as Collector of Internal Revenue the sum of P77,018.39 as inheritance taxes and P13,001.41 as income taxes assessed against the estate of Arthur G. Moody
The Court of First Instance in this case declared Antiporda municipal president-elect of Binangonan, Rizal, with a majority of 10 votes over the protestant Katipunan. This court, upon appeal, affirmed said decision, having found, after considering the grounds of the appeal, that
The appellant was charged in the lower court with the crime of theft of articles valued at P585.15 and, having pleaded guilty, was sentenced to six months and one day of prision correctional and, being a habitual delinquent, to an additional penalty of two years, four months and
The plaintiff brought suit to require the defendants to pay a certain rent stipulated in a contract of lease. The defendants appealed from the judgment ordering them to pay, jointly and severally, the plaintiff the sum of P11,400 as unpaid rents from April 1, 1932 to October 31,
This is an appeal from an order of the Court of First Instance of Davao, denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed in behalf of Ah Fook, who claimed the right to enter this country as minor son of Ah Young, a Chinese merchant residing in Davao. A board of special inqui
The appellant was sentenced by the Court of First Instance of Manila for a violation of section 4 of the Gold Reserve Act of Congress of January 30, 1934, to pay a fine of Pl,104, with forfeiture of the gold found in his possession. On March 17, 1934, in the City of Manila, the a
This is an appeal from a ruling of the Court of First Instance of Tayabas dated October 10, 1935, which is as follows: "AUTO "Considerada la mocion de 18 de septiembre, 1935, presentada por los abogados del recurrido Francisco Hernandez pidiendo, por las razones en ella expuestas
The defendant Eligio Alonso appeals to this court from the judgment of the Court of First Instance of Manila, the dispositive part of which reads: "Wherefore, after taking into consideration all the circumstances of this case, the court hereby rendered judgment ordering the defen
