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HTMC vs BRC

HI-TONE MARKETING CORPORATION, Petitioner, vs. BAIKAL REALTY CORPORATION and ALEJANDRO R. VILLANUEVA, in his capacity as Register of Deeds of Cavite, Respondents.

G.R. No. 149992 | 2004-08-20

D E C I S I O N


Tinga, J.:





The great and chief end of men . . . putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property. [John Locke, Treatises on Government]




This is a petition for review of the Court of Appeals' Decision[1] dated 02 May 2001 and Resolution dated 14 September 2001,[2] dismissing petitioner's petition for annulment of the 29 March 1995 Order of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Cavite at Trece Martires City, Branch 23 in Civil Case No. TM-582.[3]



On 22 February 1995, private respondent Baikal Realty Corporation ("Baikal Realty") filed a petition for mandamus with a prayer for preliminary...