Uriate vs. CFI of Negros Occ.
Uriate vs. CFI of Negros Occ.
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DIZON, J.:
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respectivelypraying:
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for its probate with the Manila Court since August 28, 1862
when Juan Uriarte Zamacona filed a motion for the
dismissal of Special Proceeding No. 6344. All these
notwithstanding, it was only on April 15, 1963 that he filed
with the Manila Court in Special Proceeding No. 51396 an
Omnibus motion asking for leave to intervene and for the
dismissal and annulment of all the proceedings had therein
up to that date; thus enabling the Manila Court not only to
appoint an administrator with the will annexed but also to
admit said will to probate more than five months earlier, or
more specifically, on October 31, 1962. To allow him now to
assail the exercise of jurisdiction over the probate of the
will by the Manila Court and the validity of all the
proceedings had in Special Proceeding No. 51396 would put
a premium on his negligence. Moreover, it must be
remembered that this Court is not inclined to annul
proceedings regularly had in a lower court even if the latter
was not the proper venue therefore if the net result would
be to have the same proceedings repeated in some other
court of similar jurisdiction; more so in a case like the
present where the objection against said proceedings is
raised too late.
In his order of April 19, 1963 dismissing Special
Proceeding No. 6344, Judge Fernandez of the Negros Court
said that he was "not inclined to sustain the contention of
the petitioner that inasmuch as the herein petitioner has
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Writs denied.
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