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Paulino Valencia Vs. Arsenio Fer. Cabanting

PAULINO VALENCIA, complainant, vs. ATTY. ARSENIO FER. CABANTING, respondent.

A.C. No. 1302 | 1991-04-26

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

These consolidated administrative cases seek to disbar respondents Dionisio Antiniw, Arsenio Fer Cabanting and Eduardo Jovellanos (the last named, now an MCTC Judge) for grave malpractice and misconduct in the exercise of their legal profession committed in the following manner:

1. Administrative Cases No. 1302 and 1391

In 1933, complainant Paulino Valencia (Paulino in short) and his wife Romana allegedly bought a parcel of land, where they built their residential house, from a certain Serapia Raymundo, an heir of Pedro Raymundo the original owner.

However, they failed to register the sale or secure a...