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Mateo Vs. Court Of Appeals, Et Al.

LAURA MATEO, petitioner, vs. THE HON. COURT OF APPEALS, HON. EUTROPIO MIGRI?O, Presiding Judge of the RTC of Pasig, Branch 151, ADELA MENDOZA and the BRANCH SHERIFF OF THE RTC of Pasig, Branch 151, respondents.

G.R. No. 97839 | 1993-04-22

D E C I S I O N
 
GRIÑO-AQUINO, J.:
 
On April 14, 1975, the petitioner, Laura Mateo, filed an action in the Regional Trial Court of Pasig, Rizal.
 
(1) to annul a deed of sale of a half-hectare parcel of land in Las Piñas which she had executed in favor of the spouses, Adela and Cecilia Mendoza, in 1970, and
 
(2) to cancel the Mendozas’ TCT No. 275004 with damages. The trial court, in a decision dated October 10, 1983, dismissed the complaint on the grounds that the action had prescribed and that it was "unfounded and frivolous" (p. 31, Rollo). The plaintiff filed a notice of appeal on October...