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Heirs of Mariano V. Tajonera vs. Court of Appeals et al.

HEIRS OF MARIANO V. TAJONERA, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS * and AMANDA TRIGAL, MANUEL T. PAZ, ROSARIO SANTOS VIRAY, MANUEL VIRAY, GLORIA SANTOS CARLOS, GIL CARLOS, FELICITACION SANTOS, JOHN DOE, ALEJANDRA PAZ GARCIA, CEFERINO GARCIA and VICTORIA NAVARRO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-26677 | 1981-03-27

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, J.:

The Court reverses the decision of the Court of Appeals which declared as null and void the public auction sale in 1941 conducted by the City Treasurer of Manila of the two subject parcels of land as well as the subsequent sales of the same to Juanita David and Mariano Tajonera, successively (in 1943 and 1944), and ordered the latter to execute a deed of conveyance of said properties in favor of herein private respondents. While under the ruling of Velayo vs. Ordoveza, et al. 1 (on which the appellate court wholly relied) the "city assessor and collector" (not the city treasurer of Manila) is the official...