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Simplicia O. Abrigo, et al. Vs. Jimmy Flores, et al.

SIMPLICIA O. ABRIGO and DEMETRIO ABRIGO, Petitioners, vs. JIMMY F. FLORES, EDNA F. FLORES, DANILO FLORES, BELINDA FLORES, HECTOU. FLORES, MARITES FLORES, HEIRS OF MARIA F. FLORES, JACINTO FAYLONA, ELISA FAYLONA MAGPANTAY, MARIETTA FAYLONA CARTACIANO, and HEIRS of TOMASA BANZUELA VDA. DE FAYLONA, Respondents.

G.R. No. 160786 | 2013-06-17

FIRST DIVISION 

DECISION 

BERSAMIN, J.:

Once a judgment becomes immutable and unalterable by virtue of its finality, its execution should follow as a matter of course. A supervening event, to be sufficient to stay or stop the execution, must alter or modify the situation of the parties under the decision as to render the execution inequitable, impossible, or unfair. The supervening event cannot rest on unproved or uncertain facts. 

In this appeal, petitioners seek to reverse the decision in CA-G.R. SP No. 48033 promulgated on September 25, 2002, 1 whereby the Court of Appeals (CA) directed the Regional Trial Court, Branch 30,...