G.R. No. L-42091
Today is Thursday, November 27, 2014
Republic of the Philippines
SUPREME COURT
Manila
EN BANC
G.R. No. L-42091
November 2, 1935
GONZALO CHUA GUAN, plaintiff-appellant, vs. SAMAHANG MAGSASAKA, INC., and SIMPLICIO OCAMPO, ADRIANO G. SOTTO, and EMILIO VERGARA, as president, secretary and treasurer respectively of the same, defendants-appellees.
Buenaventura C. Lopez for appellant.
Domingo L. Vergara for appellees.
BUTTE, J.:
This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Nueva Ecija in an action for a writ of mandamus.
The case is remarkable for the following reason: that the parties entered into a stipulation in which the defendants admitted all of the allegations of the complaint and the plaintiff admitted all of the special defenses in the answer of the defendants, and on this stipulation they submitted the case for decision.
The complaint alleges that the defendant Samahang Magsasaka, Inc., is a corporation duly organized under the laws of the Philippine Islands with principal office in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, and that the individual defendants are the president, secretary and treasurer respectively of the same; that on June 18, 1931, Gonzalo H. Co Toco was the owner of 5,894 shares of the capital stock of the said corporation represented by nine certificates having a par value of P5 per share; that on said date Gonzalo H. Co Toco, a resident of Manila, mortgaged said 5,894 shares to Chua Chiu to guarantee the payment of a debt of P20,000 due on or before June 19, 1932. The said certificates of stock were delivered with the mortgage to the mortgagee, Chua Chiu. The said mortgage was duly registered in the office of the register of deeds of Manila on June 23, 1931, and in the office of the said corporation on September 30, 1931.
On November 28, 1931, Chua Chiu assigned all his right and interest in the said mortgage to the plaintiff and the assignment was registered in the office of the register of deeds in