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    Reyes (Administrator) V Dolores Zuñiga Vda. de Vidal

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    This case concerns the admission of a will to probate. The trial court did not admit the will because the petitioner failed to prove the testratrix knew and spoke the language the will was written in, which was Spanish. The Supreme Court ruled this failure alone was not enough to conclude the legal requirement was not met, as there was other evidence that supplied this technical omission. The Supreme Court found the requirement that the testatrix knew the language of the will was complied with.

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    This case concerns the admission of a will to probate. The trial court did not admit the will because the petitioner failed to prove the testratrix knew and spoke the language the will was written in, which was Spanish. The Supreme Court ruled this failure alone was not enough to conclude the legal requirement was not met, as there was other evidence that supplied this technical omission. The Supreme Court found the requirement that the testatrix knew the language of the will was complied with.

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    This case concerns the admission of a will to probate. The trial court did not admit the will because the petitioner failed to prove the testratrix knew and spoke the language the will was written in, which was Spanish. The Supreme Court ruled this failure alone was not enough to conclude the legal requirement was not met, as there was other evidence that supplied this technical omission. The Supreme Court found the requirement that the testatrix knew the language of the will was complied with.

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    ASALI

    Case No. 27
    LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT
    Reyes (Administrator) v Dolores Zuñiga Vda. De Vidal (G.R. No. L-2862 April 21, 1952)

    FACTS: This concerns the admission to probate of a document claimed to be the last will and testament of Maria
    Zuñ iga Vda. de Pando opposed by Dolores Zuñ iga Vda. De Vidal, sister of the testator alleging that signature of
    testator was not genuine. RTC however disallowed the will on the ground that the petitioner failed to prove that
    the testratrix knew and spoke the language (Spanish) in which the will in question appears to have been written.

    ISSUE: WON the requirement that the testatrix knew the language in which the will was written was complied in
    this case.

    RULING: YES. There is indeed nothing in the testimony of the witnesses presented by the petitioner which would
    indicate that the testatrix knew and spoke the Spanish language used in the preparation of the will in question. But
    failure alone (to prove that the testratrix knew and spoke the language in which the will in question appears to
    have been written) does not in itself suffice to conclude that this important requirement of the law has not been
    complied with, it appearing that there is enough evidence on record which supplies this technical omission.

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