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Rodolfo Tigno, et al. vs. Court Of Appeals, et al.

RODOLFO TIGNO AND SPOUSES EDUALINO and EVELYN CASIPIT, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS AND EDUARDO TIGNO, respondents.

G.R. No. 110115 | 1997-10-08

D E C I S I O N

PANGANIBAN, J:

In denying this petition, the Court takes this occasion to apply the principles of implied trust. As an exception to the general rule barring factual reviews in petitions under Rule 45, the Court wades into the transcript of stenographic notes only to find that the Court of Appeals, indeed, correctly overturned the trial court's findings of facts.

The Case

Petitioners challenge the Decision 1 of Respondent Court of Appeals 2 in CA-G.R. CV No. 29781 promulgated on October 15, 1992 and its Resolution 3 promulgated on May 5, 1993. The dispositive portion of the assailed Decision reads: 4

"WHEREFORE, in view...