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Solid Homes, Inc. vs. Teresita Payawal, etal.

SOLID HOMES, INC., petitioner, vs. TERESITA PAYAWAL and COURT OF APPEALS, respondents.

G.R. No. 84811 | 1989-08-29

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

We are asked to reverse a decision of the Court of Appeals sustaining the jurisdiction of the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City over a complaint filed by a buyer, the herein private respondent, against the petitioner, for delivery of title to a subdivision lot. The position of the petitioner, the defendant in that action, is that the decision of the trial court is null and void ab initio because the case should have been heard and decided by what is now called the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board.

The complaint was filed on August 31, 1982, by Teresita Payawal against Solid Homes, Inc. before the...