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must be taken in that view. Ngo Hay was wont to say 'he'
owned the Modern Box Factory, meaning that he was the
principal owner, his other partner being Ngo Tian Tek.
Now, it needs no demonstration·for appellant does not
deny it·that the obligations of the Lee Guan Box Factory
must rest upon its known owner. And that owner is Ngo
Tian Tek and Ngo Hay."
We must overrule petitioner's contention that the Court
of Appeals erred in holding that Lee Guan Box Factory was
a subsidiary of the Modern Box Factory and in
disregarding the f act that the contracts evidencing the
debts in question were signed by Vicente Tan alias Chan
Sy, without any indication that tended to involve the
Modern Box Factory or the petitioner. In the first place, we
are concluded by the finding of the Court of Appeals
regarding the ownership by the petitioner of Lee Guan Box
Factory. Secondly, the circumstance that Vicente Tan alias
Chan Sy acted in his own name cannot save the petitioner,
in view of said ownership, and because contracts entered
into by a factor of a commercial establishment known to
belong to a wellknown enterprise or association, shall be
understood as made for the account of the owner of such
enterprise or association, even when the factor has not so
stated at the time of executing the same, provided that
such contracts involve objects comprised in the line and
business of the establishment. (Article 286, Code of
Commerce.) The fact that Vicente Tan did not have any
recorded power of attorney executed by the petitioner will
not operate to prejudice third persons, like the respondent
Philippine Education Co., Inc., and its assignors. (3
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Echavarri, 133.)
Another defense set up by the petitioner is that prior to
the transactions which gave rise to this suit, Vicente Tan
had purchased Lee Guan Box Factory from Ngo Hay under
the contract, Exhibit 7; and the petitioner assails, under
the second assignment of error, the conclusion of the Court
of Appeals that said contract is simulated. This contention
is purely factual and must also be overruled.
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assignment.' "
Petitioner's allegations that "fraud in the inception of
the debt is personal to the contracting parties and does not
follow assignment," and that the contracts assigned to the
respondent company "are immoral and against public
policy and therefore void," constitute defenses on the
merits, but do not affect the efficacy of the assignment. It is
obvious that, apart from the fact that the petitioner cannot
invoke fraud of its authorship to evade liability, the
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