In civil case  No. 3661 of the Court of First Instance of Batangas instituted  by Sixto Inandan  and others against Juan  Mendoza, Eduardo Mendoza, and Platon Amada for the partition of two parcels of land, judgment was rendered on  March 24,  1941,  decreeing the partition as prayed for. The court overruled the defense interposed by the defendant Eduardo Mendoza to the effect that the second parcel of land sought to be partitioned  belonged  to him exclusively because his deceased mother Juana Inandan had ceded it to him by virtue of an onerous  donation evidenced by a private document  (exhibit 2).   The court declared in  effect that no such donation  had been made  and that  exhibit 2, supposed to have been thumbmarked by Juana Inandan, was of doubtful authenticity.

On April 25,  1941, Brigida Paz, the wife of Eduardo Mendoza,  filed a petition to set aside the judgment of partition, which petition she amended on October 13, 1941, alleging that the second parcel of land above mentioned "belongs exclusively to the herein petitioner Brigida Paz and her husband  by virtue of an onerous donation executed  by the deceased Juana Inandan during her lifetime sometime on the 20th day of July, 1925, at  Rosario, Batangas," and praying that the commissioner of partition be  ordered  to refrain from including the undivided portion of said parcel of land in  the project  of partition to be submitted by him.  After due hearing said petition of Brigida Paz was denied by the court, and in due  time the project of partition was approved.

Brigida Paz, refusing to recognize the validity of the writ of execution and  claiming that she, not being  a  party defendant in the complaint for partition, was not bound by the judgment, likewise refused  to yield the possession of the land and the harvest therefrom, notwithstanding repeated orders of the court threatening her with punishment for contempt.

To annul the writ of execution and the subsequent orders of the respondent court and prevent her impending arrest for contempt, Brigida Paz filed the present petition for certiorari and prohibition, without mentioning in her petition that  she is the wife of the defendant Eduardo  Mendoza in said  civil case No. 3661 and pretending that she  is a total stranger in said action.

But upon examining the record of said civil case No.  3661, which we ordered brought  up here, we find that her pretensions are entirely baseless and that her conduct is really contumacious.  She is relying solely upon  the same private instrument of supposed onerous donation (exhibit 2) which had  been relied upon by her husband and which  the  court had rejected.   It is patent that the interest she claims in the land in question is conjugal  and not paraphernal (see paragraph 2, article 1401, and paragraph 2, article 1396,  Civil Code).  Therefore, she is bound by the judgment rendered in civil case No. 3661 against her husband, who by  law is the manager, with power to dispose, of the conjugal properties.

The petition is denied and the writ of preliminary injunction is dissolved, without any finding as to  costs because the petitioner is litigating as a pauper.

Yulo, C. J., Moran, Paras, and Bocobo, JJ., concur.