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Mariano Cabanos Vs. Register Of Deeds Of Laguna 040 Phil 614

MARIANO CABANOS, plaintiff-appellee, vs. THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF LAGUNA and CIRILO OBI?ANA, defendant. CIRILO OBI?ANA appellant.

G.R. No. 14857 | 1919-12-20

D E C I S I O N


TORRES, J .:

This suit was instituted upon a complaint filed by Mariano Cabanos in the Court of First Instance of Laguna on January 12, 1918, who alleges under oath that he is the exclusive owner of the lands described therein, which were sold to him by the defendant Cirilo Obiñana under pacto de retro, as evidenced by a document executed by the latter in his favor on March 10, 1913; that the sale has become absolute and binding for failure of the defendant Cirilo Obiñana to exercise his right of repurchase within the period marked by law; that without plaintiff's knowledge and consent the defendant under...