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Severino Mateo vs. Andres Plan, etal.

SEVERINO MATEO, petitioner, vs. HON. ANDRES PLAN and TEOFILO BALOT, respondents.

G.R. No. L-38884 | 1988-11-24

D E C I S I O N


SARMIENTO, J.:

This is a petition for certiorari assailing the refusal of the respondent trial judge 1 to admit the proffered Amended Answer of the petitioner.

The facts giving rise to the controversy may be briefly summarized as follows:

On July 15, 1972, private respondent Teofilo Balot, plaintiff in the court below 1 filed an Amended Complaint against defendant Severino Mateo, the petitioner herein, for the Recovery of Possession of a parcel of land With Receivership And Damages. Private respondent Teofilo Balot, as plaintiff in the court below avers in his Amendment Complaint that he is the absolute owner of a...