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Gomez vs. Gomez-Samson [DECISION]

AUGUSTO GOMEZ, as Special Administrator of the Intestate Estate of Consuelo Gomez, Petitioner, versus MARIA RITA GOMEZ-SAMSON, MARCIAL SAMSON, JESUS B. GOMEZ, and the REGISTER OF DEEDS OF PASIG and MARIKINA, RIZAL, Respondents. / AUGUSTO GOMEZ, as Special Administrator of the Intestate Estate of Consuelo Gomez, Petitioner, versus ARISTON A. GOMEZ, SR. (who died during the pendency of the cases below and substituted by his surviving wife, LUZ BAYSON GOMEZ, and children namely: ARISTON B. GOMEZ, JR., MA. RITA GOMEZ-SAMSON, JESUS B. GOMEZ, MA. TERESA G. BLOOM, MARIANO B. GOMEZ, and CARLOS B. GOMEZ) and ARISTON B. GOMEZ, JR., Respondents.

G.R. No. 156284 | 2007-02-06

D E C I S I O N
 
CHICO-NAZARIO, J.:
 
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

This age-old question has spurned millions of debates in scientific and religious circles, and has stimulated the imagination of generations of children and adults. Many profess that they are certain of the answer, and yet their answers are divergent.

The case at bar involves a similarly baffling question, but in significantly lesser proportions of philosophical mystery. Petitioner claims that, in the two Deeds of Donation he is impugning, the signatures of the donee were jotted down before the bodies of the Deeds were typewritten. Respondents maintain...