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Manotok Realty, Inc. Vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

MANOTOK REALTY, INC., petitioner, vs. THE HON. COURT OF APPEALS and FELIPE CARILLO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-39044 | 1985-01-31

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

In the petition for review, the petitioner asks that we reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals, now the intermediate Appellate Court, which declared respondent Felipe Carillo a builder in good faith with the right to remain in the questioned premises, free of rent, until reimbursed by the petitioner for the necessary and useful expenses introduced on the land.

The dispositive portion of the Court of Appeals' decision reads:

"WHEREFORE, the appealed judgment is hereby modified in the sense that the appellant being a builder in good faith is entitled to the right of retention of the lot...