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First Optima Realty Corporation vs. Securitron Security Services, Inc.

FIRST OPTIMA REALTY CORPORATION, PETITIONER, VS. SECURITRON SECURITY SERVICES, INC., RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 199648 | 2015-01-28

SECOND DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N

DEL CASTILLO, J.:
 
In a potential sale transaction, the prior payment of earnest money even before the property owner can agree to sell his property is irregular, and cannot be used to bind the owner to the obligations of a seller under an otherwise perfected contract of sale; to cite a well-worn cliché, the carriage cannot be placed before the horse.  The property owner-prospective seller may not be legally obliged to enter into a sale with a prospective buyer through the latter’s employment of questionable practices which prevent the owner from freely giving his consent to the...