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Spouses Pen vs. Spouses Santos and Julian

SPOUSES ROBERTO AND ADELAIDA PEN, PETITIONERS, VS. SPOUSES SANTOS AND LINDA JULIAN, RESPONDENTS.

G.R. No. 160408 | 2016-01-11

D E C I S I O N
 
BERSAMIN, J.:
 
The petitioners who were the buyers of the mortgaged property of the respondents seek the reversal of the decision promulgated on October 20, 2003,[1] whereby the Court of Appeals (CA) affirmed with modification the adverse judgment rendered on August 30, 1999 by the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 77, in Quezon City.[2] In their respective rulings, the CA and the RTC both declared the deed of sale respecting the respondents' property as void and inexistent, albeit premised upon different reasons.
 
Antecedents

The CA summarized the antecedent facts and procedural matters in its assailed...