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Alcantara-Pica vs. CFI of Rizal, Branch IV, Quezon City, et al.

ELISA ALCANTARA-PICA, petitioner, vs. HONORABLE JUDGE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF RIZAL, BRANCH IV, QUEZON CITY, ANATOLIO CARIGO Y TAMBONGCO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-36434 | 1973-10-27

D E C I S I O N

TEEHANKEE, J:
In this petition for review of respondent's right to possession of the car in question as against petitioner in an interpleader proceeding filed by the Metrocom which had impounded the car, the Court reaffirms once again the governing provisions of Article 559 of the Civil Code and its long-established docrinal jurisprudence that petitioner as owner of the car of which she had been unduly deprived may recover the same as against the possessor (without reimbursement of the sum received in a private sale by the embezzler or wrongdoer from the possessor) even assuming that the possessor had purchased the same in...