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Spouses Valenzuela et al. vs. Court of Appeals and Spouses de Guia

SPOUSES JOVITO VALENZUELA and NORMA VALENZUELA, SPOUSES ALFREDO QUIAZON and BELLA GONZALES QUIAZON, SPOUSES EDUARDO DE GUZMAN and JULIETA DE GUZMAN, DE GUZMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, SKYFREIGHT BROKERAGE, INC., ATTY. ROMULO R. BOBADILA and WEB-HEGG CONSTRUCTION RESOURCES, INCORPORATED, petitioners, vs. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS and SPOUSES MANUEL T. DE GUIA and LETICIA MARIANO DE GUIA and the REGISTER OF DEEDS OF PARANAQUE CITY, METRO MANILA, respondents.

G.R. No. 131175 | 2001-08-28

D E C I S I O N

BUENA, J.:

In resolving the propriety of the amendment of the complaint in the present case, which motion to amend was filed after the lapse of fifteen years from the filing of the initiatory pleading sought to be amended, this Court painstakingly considered not only the peculiar circumstances obtaining, but also accorded premium to the legal truism that "adjective law is not the counterfoil of substantive law" and that the rules of procedure must not be perverted into engines of injustice.[1]

Sought to be reversed in the instant petition for review on certiorari is the decision[2] of the Court of Appeals dated 15...