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Romero vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

VIRGILIO R. ROMERO, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS and ENRIQUE CHUA VDA. DE ONGSIONG, respondents.

G.R. No. 107207 | 1995-11-23

D E C I S I O N



VITUG, J.:

The parties pose this question: May the vendor demand the rescission of a contract for the sale of a parcel of land for a cause traceable to his own failure to have the squatters on the subject property evicted within the contractually-stipulated period?

Petitioner Virgilio R. Romero, a civil engineer, was engaged in the business of production, manufacture and exportation of perlite filter aids, permalite insulation and process perlite ore. In 1988, petitioner and his foreign partners decided to put up a central warehouse in Metro Manila on a land area of approximately 2,000 square meters. The project was made known...