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Jose Calisay Vs. Evangelina Rabanzo-Teodoro etc

JOSE CALISAY, Petitioner, versus EVANGELINA RABANZO-TEODORO, represented by her Attorney-in-Fact MELODY TEODORO-YANEZA, Respondent.

G.R. No. 153411 | 2007-08-17

D E C I S I O N


Tinga, J.:

This Petition for Review under Rule 45 assails the Decision dated 31 October 2001 rendered by the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 54620.[1] The case stemmed from a complaint for unlawful detainer filed with the Municipal Trial Court (MTC) of Sta. Cruz, Laguna.

The antecedents follow.

On 1 April 1998, respondent Evangelina Rabanzo-Teodoro[2] as plaintiff filed a complaint for unlawful detainer[3] against petitioner Jose Calisay as defendant. Respondent alleged that her father, Dominador V. Rabanzo (Rabanzo), purchased the subject property, a parcel of residential land identified as Lot No. 1062, with an...