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MWD vs. Reyes

METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRICT, petitioner-appellant, vs. AURELIO REYES, respondent-appellee.

G.R. No. 48650 | 1943-02-26

D E C I S I O N

OZAETA, J:
In civil case No. 49603 of the Court of First Instance of Manila the Metropolitan Water District obtained a money judgment against Ciriaca Chan on June 23, 1936. By virtue of a writ of execution issued on said judgment on July 26, 1937, the sheriff attached the interest or participation which Ciriaca Chan had or might have in the land described in transfer certificate of title No. 47160, and the attachment was annotated on the back of said certificate of title on August 25, 1937. For reasons not appearing in the record, the sheriff did not sell the attached property at public auction until March 24, 1939, when...