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Air Transportation Office vs. Spouses David and Elisea Ramos

AIR TRANSPORTATION OFFICE, Petitioner, vs. SPOUSES DAVID* ELISEA RAMOS, Respondents.

G.R. No. 159402 | 2011-02-23




THIRD DIVISION

R E S O L U T I O N


BERSAMIN, J.:


The State's immunity from suit does not extend to the petitioner because it is an agency of the State engaged in an enterprise that is far from being the State's exclusive prerogative.


Under challenge is the decision promulgated on May 14, 2003,1 by which the Court of Appeals (CA) affirmed with modification the decision rendered on February 21, 2001 by the Regional Trial Court, Branch 61 (RTC), in Baguio City in favor of the respondents.2


Antecedents


Spouses David and Elisea Ramos (respondents) discovered that a portion of their land registered under Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-58894 of...