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32 SCRA 261
Facts
Plaintiff appealed to the amended decision of the trial court reducing 12% to legal interest and
25% to P5,000.00, for interest and attorneys fees, respectively, from the unpaid purchases of
defendant, which issued two sets of bouncing check. The trial court found that plaintiff is estopped, in
that his original complaint prayed for legal interest plus P5,000.00 attorneys fees. There was an
amended complaint however which prayed for 12% interest and 25% attorneys fees.
Issue
Will the reliefs prayed for in the original complaint be admitted?
Held
The original complaint was not formally offered in evidence. Having been amended, the
original complaint lost its character as a judicial admission, which would have required no proof, and
became merely an extrajudicial admission, the admissibility of which, as evidence, requires its formal
offer.
Since the record does not show that the original complaint was admitted in evidence, there is
no proof of estoppel on the part of the plaintiff on his allegations therein.