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Sps Lacap vs Jouvet Ong Lee

SPOUSES DARIO LACAP and MATILDE LACAP, petitioners, vs. JOUVET ONG LEE, represented by Reynaldo de los Santos, respondent.

G.R. No. 142131 | 2002-12-11

D E C I S I O N

CORONA, J.:

Before us is a petition for review of the decision[1] dated February 28, 2000 of the Court of Appeals[2] affirming the decision[3] of the Regional Trial Court (RTC, for brevity) of Davao City, Branch 11. The said courts affirmed on appeal the decision dated April 30, 1997 of the Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC, for brevity) of Davao City in a case[4] for unlawful detainer filed by respondent Jouvet Ong Lee against the petitioner spouses Dario and Matilde Lacap.

The facts, as found by the Court of Appeals and the Regional Trial Court, are as follows:

Before 1981, a certain Victor Facundo mortgaged two...