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Ramil Lumbre vs Justiniano dela Cruz

RAMIL LUMBRE, complainant, vs. JUSTINIANO C. DELA CRUZ, Sheriff, Metropolitan Trial Court, Branch 38, Quezon City, respondent.

A.M. No. MTJ-01-1379 | 2002-09-10

D E C I S I O N

VITUG, J.:

In a sworn letter-complaint, dated 27 May 2000, complainant Ramil Lumbre has charged respondent sheriff Justiniano C. de la Cruz with dereliction of duty for his failure to implement a writ of execution. The matter relates to Civil Case No. 13818, entitled "Spouses Ramil Lumbre and Leticia Lumbre vs. Spouses Cesario Baluyot and Cynthia Baluyot," for rescission of contract and recovery of a sum of money and damages before the Metropolitan Trial Court, Branch 33, of Quezon City.

Complainant, the plaintiff in the civil case, averred that on 23 January 1998, then Presiding Judge Ricardo Buenviaje rendered a...