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Tuason vs Register of Deeds Caloocan City

ROMAN C. TUASON and REMEDIOS V. TUASON, by attorney-in-fact Trinidad S. Viado, petitioners, vs. REGISTER OF DEEDS, CALOOCAN CITY, MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, and the NATIONAL TREASURER, respondents. TOMASA BARTOLOME, in her own behalf and in behalf of the other members of the "Consuelo Heights Homeowners Association," petitioners-intervenors.

G.R. No. 70484 | 1988-01-29

D E C I S I O N

NARVASA, J.:

A more despotic, capricious, oppressive and unjustifiable exercise of government power than that manifested in this case can scarcely be found in the sordid annals of the martial law regime. Relief to the victims must be as it is hereby extended by the grant to them of the extraordinary writ of certiorari and prohibition condemning as unconstitutional, and annulling and perpetually enjoining the acts complained of.

Petitioner spouses, the Tuasons, were retired public school teachers. On April 6, 1965, with funds pooled from their retirements benefits and savings, they bought from Carmel Farms, Inc. (hereafter...