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RB of Makati vs Valero

RURAL BANK OF MAKATI, INC., ESTEBAN S. SILVA and MAGDALENA V. LANDICHO, petitioners, vs. MUNICIPALITY OF MAKATI and ATTY. VICTOR A. L. VALERO, respondents.

G.R. No. 150763 | 2004-07-02

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

In its decision[1] dated July 17, 2001, in CA-G.R. CV No. 58214, the Court of Appeals affirmed the decision[2] dated October 22, 1996 of the Regional Trial Court of Makati City, Branch 134, in Civil Case No. 91-2866 dismissing petitioners' complaint for recovery of a sum of money and damages. Petitioners now assail said CA decision as well as the Resolution[3] dated November 9, 2001, which denied their Motion for Reconsideration.

The facts are as follows:

Sometime in August 1990, Atty. Victor A.L. Valero, then the municipal attorney of the Municipality of Makati, upon request of the municipal treasurer,...