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PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

SECOND DIVISION

[G.R. No. 39008. December 12, 1933. ]

NIEVES E. SAÑGA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SEGUNDO ZABALLERO and FILOMENA SANTOS, Defendants-Appellants.

Vicente Constantino for Appellants.

Ramirez & Ortigas and Manuel P. Barcelona for Appellee.

SYLLABUS


1. MORTGAGES, FORECLOSURE OF; PAYMENT BY INSTALLMENTS; CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE, SECTION 259 CONSTRUED. — Section 259 of the Code of Civil Procedure regulates fully the proceedings in cases where the mortgage debt is payable in installments.

2. ID.; ID.; ID. — Where the secured debt is payable in installments, default in the payment of any installment gives the mortgagee a right to foreclose as to such installments without waiting for the maturity of the whole debt.

3. ID.; ID.; ID. — As often as more of the debt becomes due for principal or interest, the court may, on motion, order more property to be sold.

4. SALES; FRAUD OF MUTUAL MISTAKE; ESTOPPEL. — Where the means of knowledge are at hand and equally available to both parties, the buyer will not be heard to say that he has been deceived.

5. ID.; ID.; ID. — If any act is done by the complaining party after discovering the alleged fraud or mutual toward carrying out the contract, it shows an irrevocable election to abide by the contract.


D E C I S I O N


MALCOLM, J.:


Appealing from the adverse judgment of the Court of First Instance of Tayabas:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph

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