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Ramon Carenan, etal. Vs. Court of Appeals, etal.

RAMON CARENAN and SONNY CARENAN, petitioners, vs. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS and PASCUAL DE JESUS, respondents.

G.R. No. 84358 | 1989-05-31

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The petitioners pray for the invalidation of a Kasunduan on the ground that it does not express the true intention of the parties and was in fact vitiated with fraud. We are asked in effect to deviate from the parol evidence rule which there can be no evidence of the terms of a written agreement other than the writing itself.

The Kasunduan 1 was executed on February 6, 1978, by Ramon Carenan, one of the herein petitioners, and private respondent Pascual de Jesus. It was written in Tagalog and duly acknowledged before a notary public. By this agreement, De Jesus lent one-half hectare of his land to Carenan for...