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Suga Sotto Yuvienco, et al. vs. Auexencio C. Dacuycuy, et al.

SUGA SOTTO YUVIENCO, BRITANIA SOTTO, and MARCELINO SOTTO, petitioners, vs. HON. AUXENCIO C. DACUYCUY, Judge of the CFI of Leyte, DELY RODRIGUEZ, FELIPE ANG CRUZ, CONSTANCIA NOGAR, MANUEL GO, INOCENTES DIME, WILLY JULIO, JAIME YU, OSCAR DY, DY CHIU SENG, BENITO YOUNG, FERNANDO YU, SEBASTIAN YU, CARLOS UY, HOC CHUAN and MANUEL DY, respondents.

G.R. No. L-55048 | 1981-05-27

D E C I S I O N


BARREDO, J:

Petition for certiorari and prohibition to declare void for being in grave abuse of discretion the orders of respondent judge dated November 2, 1978 and August 29, 1980, in Civil Case No. 5759 of the Court of First Instance of Leyte, which denied the motion filed by petitioners to dismiss the complaint of private respondents for specific performance of an alleged agreement of sale of real property, the said motion being based on the grounds that the respondents' complaint states no cause of action and/or that the claim alleged therein is unenforceable under the Statute of Frauds.

Finding initially prima...