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Fernandez Vs

1) Basilia Tantoco executed a will while in the hospital a few days before her death appointing Father Vicente Fernandez as executor. 2) Three of Tantoco's relatives opposed the probate of the will. 3) The trial court refused to probate the will because the three attesting witnesses were not in full agreement on whether they were all present together when Tantoco and the witnesses signed the will. 4) The Supreme Court ruled that the trial court erred in not admitting the will to probate as long as the court is satisfied the will was properly executed, even if one or more witnesses do not remember all being present, in the absence of clear proof of irregular

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Fernandez Vs

1) Basilia Tantoco executed a will while in the hospital a few days before her death appointing Father Vicente Fernandez as executor. 2) Three of Tantoco's relatives opposed the probate of the will. 3) The trial court refused to probate the will because the three attesting witnesses were not in full agreement on whether they were all present together when Tantoco and the witnesses signed the will. 4) The Supreme Court ruled that the trial court erred in not admitting the will to probate as long as the court is satisfied the will was properly executed, even if one or more witnesses do not remember all being present, in the absence of clear proof of irregular

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FERNANDEZ vs. TANTOCO G.R. No. 25489, September 8, 1926. STREET, J p: Digested by: Rogelio S.

Saguinsin III FACTS: It appears that on September 9, 1925, Basilia Tantoco, aged 62 years, executed an instrument purporting to be her will, she being at the time a patient in the San Juan de Dios Hospital in the City of Manila. Her death occurred a few days after the will was executed, and application for probate was made by father Vicente Fernandez, parish priest of Malolos. Opposition to probate was made by three brothers and a nephew of the deceased. At the time set for the submission of proof with respect to the execution of the will, the proponent introduced the three attesting witnesses to the instrument, namely, Vicente Platon, Fidel Macapugay, and Placido Suarez, as well as Aurea Gaspar, sister-in-law of the deceased who had been in attendance upon her at the hospital. The instrument shows every external requisite of proper execution, but the trial judge refused to allow it to be probated, for the reason that the three attesting witnesses are not in harmony upon the point whether all three of said witnesses were present together at the time and place when the testatrix and the witnesses affixed their signatures to the document. No testimony was submitted by the opposition, and the criticisms made by the trial judge with respect sufficiency of the proof of execution arise exclusively upon the testimony of the witnesses for the proponent. ISSUE: Whether or not the trial court committed error in refusing probate. RULING: Yes. A will may be admitted to probate notwithstanding the fact that one or more of the subscribing witnesses do not remember that all of the witnesses were present together with the testator at the time of the execution of the will, provided the court is satisfied from all the evidence that the will was executed and attested in the manner required by law. With respect to the will now in question a prima facie for the establishment of the document was made out when it appeared that the instrument itself was properly drawn and attested and that all of the signatures thereto are authentic These facts raise a presumption of regularity; and upon those facts alone the will should be admitted to probate in the absence of proof showing that some fatal irregularity occurred. And such irregularity must be proved by a preponderance of the evidence before probate can be denied.

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