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Lamberto Casalla vs PEOPLE and Milagros Estevanes

LAMBERTO CASALLA, petitioner, vs. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, and MILAGROS S. ESTEVANES, respondents.

G.R. No. 138855 | 2002-10-29

R E S O L U T I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

This petition for review on certiorari assails the decision[1] dated November 17, 1998, and the resolution[2] dated May 25, 1999 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 37031, denying petitioner's appeal as well as motion for reconsideration for lack of merit.

The facts, as summarized by the Court of Appeals from the records, are as follows:

The facts, as disclosed by the record, show that petitioner Lamberto Casalla issued two (2) Bank of Commerce checks in payment of the obligation of his wife, TERESITA CASALLA, to private respondent MILAGROS SANTOS-ESTEVANES, in order to avert a court...