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Ernesto Sicad vs. Court of Appeals

SPOUSES ERNESTO and EVELYN SICAD, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, CATALINO VALDERRAMA, JUDY CRISTINA M. VALDERRAMA and JESUS ANTONIO VALDERRAMA, respondents.

G.R. No. 125888 | 1998-08-13

D E C I S I O N

NARVASA, C.J:

The issue raised in the appeal by certiorari at bar centers on the character of a deed of donation executed by the late Aurora Virto Vda. de Montinola of the City of Iloilo - as either inter vivos or mortis causa. That deed, entitled "DEED OF DONATION INTER VIVOS," 1 was executed by Montinola on December 11, 1979. It named as donees her grandchildren, namely: Catalino Valderrama, Judy Cristina Valderrama and Jesus Antonio Valderrama; and treated of a parcel of land, Lot 3231 of the Cadastral Survey of Panay, located at Brgy. Pawa, Panay, Capiz, covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-16105 in...