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Benito Gavino, et al. Vs. CA, et al.

HEIRS OF SPOUSES BENITO GAVINO and JUANA EUSTE represented by AMPARO G. PESEBRE and BELEN G. VERCELUZ, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and JUANA VDA. DE AREJOLA represented by FLAVIA REYES, respondents.

G.R. No. 120154 | 1998-06-29

D E C I S I O N

BELLOSILLO, J:

In a conflict of rights over registered land subject of intestate proceedings which is sold without express authority of the court, which right should prevail: those of the innocent purchasers for value in good faith, or those of the heirs of the estate?

This petition emanates from a case for Annulment of Fraudulent Sales of Registered Property with Reconveyance and for Damages filed in 1968 with the Court of First Instance (now Regional Trial Court), Naga City, by Juana Vda. de Arejola, Justiniano R. Exequiel and Dominador Aureas, as administrators of the Intestate Estate of Luis P. Arejola, against Atty....