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    This document summarizes a court case regarding the nullification of two marriages between Juanita Sison and Te Lay Li. The court found that Juanita's consent to marry was obtained through force and intimidation by her father. Juanita refused to marry Te Lay Li and her father beat her and threatened her with a knife to force her consent. The lower court declared the marriages null and void due to the intimidation. The decision was affirmed on appeal, with the amount owed to Juanita modified to P1,248 instead of P1,200.

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    This document summarizes a court case regarding the nullification of two marriages between Juanita Sison and Te Lay Li. The court found that Juanita's consent to marry was obtained through force and intimidation by her father. Juanita refused to marry Te Lay Li and her father beat her and threatened her with a knife to force her consent. The lower court declared the marriages null and void due to the intimidation. The decision was affirmed on appeal, with the amount owed to Juanita modified to P1,248 instead of P1,200.

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    This document summarizes a court case regarding the nullification of two marriages between Juanita Sison and Te Lay Li. The court found that Juanita's consent to marry was obtained through force and intimidation by her father. Juanita refused to marry Te Lay Li and her father beat her and threatened her with a knife to force her consent. The lower court declared the marriages null and void due to the intimidation. The decision was affirmed on appeal, with the amount owed to Juanita modified to P1,248 instead of P1,200.

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    Juanita Sison

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    Saifudin Caimbon
    This document summarizes a court case regarding the nullification of two marriages between Juanita Sison and Te Lay Li. The court found that Juanita's consent to marry was obtained through force and intimidation by her father. Juanita refused to marry Te Lay Li and her father beat her and threatened her with a knife to force her consent. The lower court declared the marriages null and void due to the intimidation. The decision was affirmed on appeal, with the amount owed to Juanita modified to P1,248 instead of P1,200.

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    JUANITA SISON, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE C.A.- G.R. NO.

    7037-
    R
    -VERSUS-
    TE LAY LI, DEFENDANT-APPELANT

    1. This is an appeal from a decision of the Court of First


    Instance of Davao declaring the two marriages celebrated
    one after another on April 28, 1949, between plaintiff Juanita
    Sison and defendant Te Lay Li, null and void on the ground
    that plaintiff’s consent was obtained through force and
    intimidation employed upon her by her father. Plaintiff and
    defendant were married in the morning of April 28, 2019
    before Judge Delfin Hofileña of the Municipal Court of Davao
    City, and in the afternoon of the same day were remarried in
    accordance with the rites of the Republic of China before
    Chinese Consul S.T. Mih in his office in Davao City.
    2. Plaintiff refused to marry the defendant but was arranged by
    his father, that her father whipped her as often as she
    opposed the proposed marriage; that on one occasion when
    her father resorted to beating because she continually
    objected to marry defendant, she fell on a galvanized iron
    roofing sheet, resulting in a wound on her right leg which
    produced a scar six inches long, that the plaintiff run away
    from their house in order to get away from her father but
    succeeded in taking her home again on the promise that he
    would no longer force her to marry against her will. That on
    the evening of her return, her father renewed the subject of
    marriage and guarded her the whole night so she could not
    escape and the next morning handed her a knife, telling her
    to choose between losing her life or his if she did not marry
    defendant; that because of fear that her father might kill her,
    plaintiff consented to marry defendant.
    3. After trial, the lower court rendered judgment finding that
    plaintiff’s marriage was consummated only by intimidation
    and force and that plaintiff never for a moment acquiesced
    to the status of a wife to the defendant, and declared the
    two marriages between plaintiff and defendant null and void.
    Defendant was also ordered to return to the plaintiff the sum
    of P1,200 and whatever personal belongings the latter had
    left in defendant’s house. From this judgment, defendant
    appeals to this court. That plaintiff’s consent to the marriage
    with defendant was procured by force and intimidation
    employed upon her by her father is, to our opinion, show by
    clear, positive, and satisfactory evidence. Not only does this
    fact appear from the uncontradicted testimony of plaintiff
    and her witnesses, but it is supported even by the
    declarations of defendant’s own witness.
    4. In view of all the foregoing, the decision appealed from is
    affirmed, with the sole modification that the amount ordered
    returned to plaintiff should be P1,248.00, according to
    evidence, and not P1,200.00. Costs against appellant.

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