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Tomas Galgala, etal vs. Benguet Consolidated etal.

TOMAS GALGALA and FRANCISCA L. GALGALA, both deceased and presently substituted by HELEN ROSE G. CADELINA and ESTHER G. YMANA, petitioners, vs. BENGUET CONSOLIDATED, INC., CONRADO H. BUENO, The REGIONAL TRIAL COURT of Baguio, Branch IV, the CITY SHERIFF of Baguio City and the INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, respondents.

G.R. No. 75206 | 1989-09-05

D E C I S I O N


FERNAN, C.J.:

We do not find in this case any cogent reason to depart from the well-settled rule that the execution of a final judgment in an ejectment case may not be stayed by the pendency of an action for annulment of documents and damages involving the same property subject matter of the ejectment suit.

The factual antecedents are as follows:

In a Memorandum of Agreement dated May 19, 1977, the late spouses Tomas and Francisca Galgala acknowledged a cash shortage of P772,419.34 allegedly incurred from 1958 to 1976 by the latter as medical assistant in the laboratory of respondent Benguet Consolidated, Inc. and...