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G Araneta Digested Case
G Araneta Digested Case
ISSUE: Whether or not Jose Araneta acted as agent of Paz Tuason de Paterno. So the ban of paragraph 2 of article 1459 connotes the idea of trust and
confidence; the relationship does not involve considerations of good faith and
HELD: integrity the prohibition should not and does not apply. To come under the
prohibition, the agent must be in a fiduciary with his principal.
Art. 1491. Para. 2- the following persons can not acquire by purchase, even at a
pulic or judicial auction , either in person or through the mediation of another:
(2) Agents, the property whose administration or sale may have been entrusted
to them, unless the consent of the principal have been given.