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    Pelayo v. Lauron Case Digest

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    The petitioner, a physician, provided medical assistance during the childbirth of the defendants' daughter-in-law and argued the defendants should pay the 500 peso fee. However, the courts ruled the defendants were not obligated to pay because, according to civil law, the obligation to pay medical fees for a spouse falls to the husband, not the in-laws. As the daughter-in-law's husband did not pay, the defendants were not responsible for the medical fees.

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    The petitioner, a physician, provided medical assistance during the childbirth of the defendants' daughter-in-law and argued the defendants should pay the 500 peso fee. However, the courts ruled the defendants were not obligated to pay because, according to civil law, the obligation to pay medical fees for a spouse falls to the husband, not the in-laws. As the daughter-in-law's husband did not pay, the defendants were not responsible for the medical fees.

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    The petitioner, a physician, provided medical assistance during the childbirth of the defendants' daughter-in-law and argued the defendants should pay the 500 peso fee. However, the courts ruled the defendants were not obligated to pay because, according to civil law, the obligation to pay medical fees for a spouse falls to the husband, not the in-laws. As the daughter-in-law's husband did not pay, the defendants were not responsible for the medical fees.

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    Pelayo v. Lauron Case Digest

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    The petitioner, a physician, provided medical assistance during the childbirth of the defendants' daughter-in-law and argued the defendants should pay the 500 peso fee. However, the courts ruled the defendants were not obligated to pay because, according to civil law, the obligation to pay medical fees for a spouse falls to the husband, not the in-laws. As the daughter-in-law's husband did not pay, the defendants were not responsible for the medical fees.

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    G.R. No.

    L-4089 January 12, 1909

    ARTURO PELAYO, plaintiff-appellant,


    vs.
    MARCELO LAURON, ET AL., defendants-appellees.

    F ACTS:
    Petitioner Pelayo, a physician, rendered a medical assistance during
    the child delivery of the daughter-in-law of the defendants. The just and
    equitable value of services rendered by him was P500.00 which the
    defendants refused to pay without alleging any good reason. With this, the
    plaintiff prayed that the judgment be entered in his favor as against the
    defendants for the sum of P500.00 and costs. RTC absolved the defendant.
    CA affirmed the RTC ruling.

    ISSUE:
    Whether or not the defendants are obliged to pay the petitioner for
    the medical assistance rendered to their daughter-in-law.

    HELD:
    No. According to Article 1089 of the Old Civil Code (now 1157),
    obligations are created by law, by contracts, by quasi-contracts, by illicit acts
    and omissions or by those which any kind of fault or negligence occurs.
    Obligations arising from law are not presumed. Those expressly determined
    in the Code or in special law, etc., are the only demandable ones.

    The rendering of medical assistance in case of illness is comprised


    among the mutual obligations to which the spouses are bound by way of
    mutual support as provided by the law or the Code. Consequently, the
    obligation to pay the plaintiff for the medical assistance rendered to the
    defendant’s daughter-in-law must be couched on the husband.

    In the case at bar, the obligation of the husband to furnish his wife
    in the indispensable services of a physician at such critical moments is
    especially established by the law and the compliance therewith is
    unavoidable.

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