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Carlito D. Corpuz vs. Court Of Appeals, et al.

CARLITO D. CORPUZ, petitioner vs. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS (SIXTEENTH DIVISION) and JUANITO ALVARADO, respondents.

G.R. No. 117005 | 1997-06-19

D E C I S I O N

ROMERO, J:

Petitioner Carlito Corpuz questions the decision of the Court of Appeals 1 affirming the decision of the Regional Trial Court of Manila, Branch 10, dismissing the petition for review in Civil Case No. 92-62869.

Corpuz filed an action for unlawful detainer against private respondent Juanito Alvarado with the Metropolitan Trial Court of Manila, Branch 6, docketed as Civil Case No. 138532, for recovery of possession of the room being occupied by the latter, which Corpuz' children allegedly needed for their own use.

Alvarado and Corpuz were two of the tenants of a certain Lorenzo Barredo who, in May 1988, decided...