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Fr. Martinez vs Court of Appeals

REV. FR. DANTE MARTINEZ, petitioner, vs. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, HONORABLE JUDGE JOHNSON BALLUTAY, PRESIDING JUDGE, BRANCH 25, REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF CABANATUAN CITY, HONORABLE JUDGE ADRIANO TUAZON, JR., PRESIDING JUDGE, BRANCH 28, REGIONAL TRIAL COURT OF CABANATUAN CITY, SPOUSES REYNALDO VENERACION and SUSAN VENERACION, SPOUSES MAXIMO HIPOLITO and MANUELA DE LA PAZ and GODOFREDO DE LA PAZ, respondents.

G.R. No. 123547 | 2001-05-21

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

This is a petition for review on certiorari of the decision, dated September 7, 1995, and resolution, dated January 31, 1996, of the Court of Appeals, which affirmed the decisions of the Regional Trial Court, Branches 25[1] and 28,[2] Cabanatuan City, finding private respondents spouses Reynaldo and Susan Veneracion owners of the land in dispute, subject to petitioner's rights as a builder in good faith.

The facts are as follows:

Sometime in February 1981, private respondents Godofredo De la Paz and his sister Manuela De la Paz, married to Maximo Hipolito, entered into an oral contract with petitioner Rev. Fr....