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Tan vs. Court of Appeals

D. ANNIE TAN, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, CHINA BANKING CORPORATION, GEORGE LAUREL TAN, TEODORA TAN ONG, ROSA TAN, ROSITA TAN, and MAURO UMALI TAN, respondents.

G.R. No. 79899 | 1989-04-24

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

Tan Tiong Tick, married to Tan Ong Hun, was the registered owner of a 178 square meter parcel of land and its improvements located at Lot No. 5, Block No. 2021 of the Cadastral Survey of Manila, Carvajal Street, Binondo, Manila.

Mr. and Mrs. Tan had six children - respondents George Laurel Tan, Teodora Tan Ong, Rosa Tan, Rosita Tan, Mauro Umali Tan, and the petitioner, D. Annie Tan.

On February 6, 1963, in order to secure payment of various obligations with respondent China Banking Corporation or China Bank for short, Mr. and Mrs. Tan Tiong Tick mortgaged the disputed property to the bank. Tan Tiong Tick...