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APPELLEE’S BRIEF

(Caption and Title)

BRIEF FOR THE APPELLEE

Appellee, thru counsel, and unto this Honorable Court respectfully submits the
brief in answer to that of the appellant.

COUNTER-STATEMENT OF FACTS

The statement of facts made by appellant in his brief is so insufficient and


inaccurate in many details, that we prefer to make our own counter-statement of facts as
appearing in the records of this case.

(Here, state the facts of the case, with reference to the pages of the record in
support thereof, but without repetition of matters in the appellant’s statement of facts.)

ARGUMENT

First alleged error: (Here quote the first assignment of error made by appellant in
his brief.)

In answer to the above assignment of error allegedly committed by the lower


court ________________ (Here the appellee shall set forth his arguments in answer to
the first assignment of error, with page references to the record. The authorities relied on
shall be cited by the page of the report at which the case begins and the page of the repot
at which the citation is found; viz. Macondray v. Eustaquio, 64 Phil. 446, 456.)

Second alleged error: (Here quote the second assignment of error made by the
appellant in his brief.)

In answer to the above assignment of error allegedly committed by the lower


court ______________ (Here the appellee shall set forth his arguments in answer to the
second assignment of error, etc.)

IN VIEW OF THE FOREGOING, it is respectfully prayed that the appeal


interposed by the appellant in the above-entitled case be dismissed, with costs in both
instances.

(Venue, date, signature)

(Explanation)

(Affidavit of Service)

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