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Carlos Super Drug vs CA and BPI

CARLOS SUPER DRUG CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS and BANK OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, respondents.

G.R. No. 126711 | 2003-03-14

D E C I S I O N

CARPIO-MORALES, J.:

Sometime in 1978, private respondent Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), then owner of the BPI Cubao Arcade[1] in Cubao, Quezon City, leased two units in the arcade, designated as Bays 4 and 5, to petitioner Carlos Super Drug Corporation (CSDC).

On August 9, 1985, following purported non-payment of rentals by CSDC, BPI filed a complaint against it for unlawful detainer (the first case) before the Metropolitan Trial Court (MeTC) of Quezon City, docketed as Civil Case No. 35-48285.

The parties later entered into a compromise agreement, which was approved on May 8, 1989 by Branch 35 of the MeTC, the...