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PC & IB vs. Villalva et al

PHILIPPINE COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL BANK, Administrator of the Testate Estate of Charles Newton Hodges (Sp. Proc. No. 1672, Court of First Instance of Iloilo), petitioner, vs. NUMERIANO VILLALVA, DAVID LOZADA, and THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, respondent

G.R. No. L-28194 | 1972-11-24

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

The reversal of a Court of Appeals decision is sought in this certiorari proceeding predicated on the contention vigorously pressed that there was a failure to accord a Torrens title the quality of conclusiveness. There is, to be sure, a plausibility to such an approach resulting in the petition being given due course. A careful study of the case, however, with due recognition of this Court's commitment to the equally basic principle that duplicity and unfairness do not acquire respectability even if cloaked in the vestment of a Torrens certificate, precludes our yielding assent to the plea of petitioner...