Marquez vs. Espejo Summary

SALUN-AT MARQUEZ and NESTOR DELA CRUZ, Petitioners, versus ELOISA ESPEJO, ELENITA ESPEJO, EMERITA ESPEJO, OPHIRRO ESPEJO, OTHNIEL ESPEJO, ORLANDO ESPEJO, OSMUNDO ESPEJO, ODELEJO ESPEJO and NEMI FERNANDEZ, Respondents

G.R. No. 168387 | 2010-08-25

In case of doubt, it is the intention of the contracting parties that prevails, not its wording which is prone to mistakes, inadequacies, or ambiguities.
Parol Evidence Rule may not be invoked where at least one of the parties to the suit is not a party to the written document in question
Supreme Court decision as a supervening cause which renders the execution of the CA decision (already final and executory) unjust and inequitable.

D E C I S I O N

DEL CASTILLO, J.

When the parties admit the contents of written documents but put in issue whether these documents adequately and correctly express the true intention of the parties, the deciding body is authorized to look beyond these instruments and into the contemporaneous and subsequent actions of the parties in order to determine such intent.

Well-settled is the rule that in case of doubt, it is the intention of the contracting parties that prevails, for the intention is the soul of a contract, not its wording which is prone to mistakes, inadequacies, or ambiguities. To hold otherwise would give life, validity, and...