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Sandoval vs. Court of Appeals

JUAN C. SANDOVAL, now deceased, represented by his surviving spouse, ADELAIDA M. SANDOVAL, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS and LORENZO L. TAN, JR., respondent.

G.R. No. 106657 | 1996-08-01

ROMERO, J.:


Another dispute over land ownership rivets the attention of this Court even as it still grapples with similar issues involving fantastically vast tracts of land considered prime real estate in Metro Manila.

That unscrupulous elements have been sparing neither energy nor resources to divert coveted properties from their actual owners through craft and cabal with land officials concerned has not been lost on this court and has, in fact, made its task doubly difficult and complicated.

In recognition of these developments that have placed under a cloud the integrity of the once unassailable Torrens Title, spawned the proliferation of...