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Severita Medina vs. Pio Garces, et al.

SEVERITA MEDINA, petitioner-appellee, vs. PIO GARCES, MAXIMINA OYOD DE GARCES, GREGORIO OYOD FERNANDO GARCES, SALVADOR CAMPEROSO, PEDRO ESPANA, LEOPOLDO BARBON, SEVERO HERAY, PASITO PASILAN, PONCIANO MEMES, ANTONIO PARADIRO, JOSE CANETE, ERNESTO SUBRANO, ANTONIO OBENGUE, DEMETRIO RESPONDE and VALERIANA ALEPATO, respondents; PIO GARCES and MAXIMINA OYOD DE GARCES, respondents-appellants.

G.R. No. L-25923 | 1980-07-15

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J.:

It would follow from the allegation as set forth in the brief for the respondents-appellants Pio Garces and Maximina Oyod de Garces that a reversal of a judgment for contempt would be justified if, as alleged, there was some sort of justification for the failure to deliver the lot in controversy to petitioner-appellee notwithstanding the finality of a court decision, as they could not ascertain its "true legal and technical descriptions and boundaries." 1 They would thus raise the legal issue of the improvident exercise of the power to punish for contempt. It suffices by way of refutation to such a...