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Agapito Manuel Vs. Court Of Appeals

AGAPITO MANUEL, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, HON. RAMON MAKASIAR and SPOUSES JESUS DE JESUS and CARMEN DE JESUS, respondents. Miguel Y. Badando for petitioner. R.C. Lizardo Law Office for private respondents.

G.R. No. 95469 | 1991-07-25

D E C I S I O N


REGALADO, J.:

This case had its inception in a complaint for ejectment filed by herein private respondents against herein petitioner before the Metropolitan Trial Court of Manila, docketed as Civil Case No. 122136-CV, for non-payment of rentals on an apartment unit owned by private respondents and rented by petitioner.

The antecedent facts which led to the filing of said case are best quoted from the succinct presentation thereof in the challenged decision of respondent court:

"It appears that the private respondents are the owners of an apartment unit which was rented by the petitioner on a month to month basis for a...