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Spouses Domingo and Lourdes Paguyo vs. Pierre Astorga, et al.

SPOUSES DOMINGO and LOURDES PAGUYO, petitioners, versus Pierre Astorga and St. Andrew Realty, Inc., Respondents.

G.R. No. 130982 | 2005-09-16

SECOND DIVISION

D E C I S I O N 

CHICO-NAZARIO, J.: 

. . . Men may do foolish things, make ridiculous contracts, use miserable judgment, and lose money by them - indeed, all they have in the world; but not for that alone can the law intervene and restore. There must be, in addition, a violation of the law, the commission of what the law knows as an actionable wrong, before the courts are authorized to lay hold of the situation and remedy it.[1] 

The case at bar demonstrates a long drawn-out litigation between parties who already entered into a valid contract that has subsisted for almost twenty (20) years but one of them later...