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FILINVEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, PETITIONER, VS. GOLDEN HAVEN MEMORIAL PARK, INC., RESPONDENT. [G.R. NO. 188265] GOLDEN HAVEN MEMORIAL PARK, INC., PETITIONER, VS. FILINVEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, RESPONDENT.

FILINVEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, PETITIONER, VS. GOLDEN HAVEN MEMORIAL PARK, INC., RESPONDENT. [G.R. NO. 188265] GOLDEN HAVEN MEMORIAL PARK, INC., PETITIONER, VS. FILINVEST DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 187824 | 2010-11-17

SECOND DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N
 
ABAD, J.:
 
These cases are about which of two real estate developers, both buyers of the same lands, acted in good faith and has a better title to the same.
 
The Facts and the Case

Petronila Yap (Yap), Victoriano and Policarpio Vivar (the Vivars), Benjamin Cruz (Cruz), Juan Aquino (Aquino), Gideon Corpuz (Corpuz), and Francisco Sobremesana (Sobremesana), and some other relatives inherited a parcel of land in Las Piñas City covered by Transfer Certificate of Title (TCT) 67462 RT-1.  Subsequently, the heirs had the land divided into 13 lots and, in a judicial partition, the court...