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Ignacio Cardente, etal. Vs. I.A. Court. Etal.

IGNACIO CARDENTE and ANASTACIA T. CARDENTE, petitioners, vs. THE INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT and SPOUSES RUPERTO RUBIN and PRIMITIVA C. RUBIN, respondents.

G.R. No. 73651 | 1987-11-27

D E C I S I O N


SARMIENTO, J.:

This is a simple case of a double sale of an immovable property. The trial court decided 1 in favor of the first vendee although the sale was by a private document. The then Intermediate Appellate Court reversed and set aside the decision 2 of the lower court. The public respondent appellate court ruled in favor of the second buyers, who registered their deed of sale. Hence, the present petition for review by certiorari.

The facts of the case are as simple as the central issue.

Sometime in 1956, Francisca Cardente, for and on behalf of her grandson, petitioner Ignacio Cardente, who was then a minor, and...