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Remollo vs. Garcia

EDGAR P. REMOLLO, complainant, vs. ATTY. THELMA A. GARCIA, Clerk of Court, Regional Trial Court, Dumaguete City, respondent.

A.M. No. P-98-1276 | 1998-09-25

D E C I S I O N
 
BELLOSILLO, J.:
 
EDGAR P. REMOLLO, in a sworn letter-complaint dated 4 March 1997,[1] charged respondent Atty. Thelma A. Garcia, Clerk of Court and Ex Officio Provincial Sheriff, Regional Trial Court of Negros Oriental, with misfeasance, bias, ignorance of the law and usurpation of judicial functions. The complainant alleged that respondent persistently refused to perform her ministerial duty to execute a Sheriff's Final Deed of Sale over forty-three (43) parcels of land in Negros Oriental sold at public auction in 1986 despite the expiration of the period for their redemption on 27 October 1989; that such...