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Benedicto-Munoz vs. Cacho-Olivares

MARGARITA M. BENEDICTO-MUÑOZ, PETITIONER, VS. MARIA ANGELES CACHO-OLIVARES, EDGARDO P. OLIVARES, PETER C. OLIVARES, CARMELA Q. OLIVARES, MICHAEL C. OLIVARES, ALEXANDRA B. OLIVARES, AND MELISSA C. OLIVARES, RESPONDENTS. ABACUS SECURITIES CORPORATION AND JOEL CHUA CHIU, PETITIONERS, VS. MARIA ANGELES CACHO-OLIVARES, PETER C. OLIVARES, CARMELA Q. OLIVARES, MICHAEL Q. OLIVARES, ALEXANDRA B. OLIVARES, [and] MELISSA C. OLIVARES, RESPONDENTS. SAPPHIRE SECURITIES, INC., PETITIONER, VS. MARIA ANGELES CACHO-OLIVARES, EDGARDO P. OLIVARES, PETER C. OLIVARES, CARMELA Q. OLIVARES, MICHAEL C. OLIVARES, ALEXANDRA B. OLIVARES, MELISSA C. OLIVARES, AND THE HON. COURT OF APPEALS, NINTH DIVISION, RESPONDENTS.

G.R. No. 179121 and G.R. No. 179128 and G.R. No. 179129 | 2015-11-09

D E C I S I O N
 
JARDELEZA, J.:
 
These are consolidated petitions[1] docketed as G.R. Nos. 179121, 179128 and 179129.[2] Petitioners seek to nullify the June 29, 2007 Decision[3] ("Decision") and August 3, 2007 Resolution[4] of the Court of Appeals ("CA") in CA GR CV No. 80641. The CA reversed the October 22, 2003 Order[5] of the Regional Trial Court of Makati, Branch 142 ("trial court") in Civil Case No. 02-1049. The trial court dismissed the case filed by respondents because by reason of the dismissal of the complaint against one of the defendants, it had lost competency to...