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Buenaventura vs. Metropolitan Bank

TERESITA I. BUENAVENTURA, Petitioner, vs. METROPOLITAN BANK AND TRUST COMPANY, Respondent. Present: SERENO, CJ, LEONARDO-DE CASTRO, BERSAMIN, PERLAS-BERNABE, and CAGUIOA, JJ

G.R. No. 167082 | 2016-08-03

Republic of the Philippines
Supreme Court
Manila
 
 
FIRST DIVISION
 
 
DECISION
 
BERSAMIN, J.:
 
A duly executed contract is the law between the parties, and, as such, commands them to comply fully and not selectively with its terms. A contract of adhesion, of itself, does not exempt the parties from compliance with what was mutually agreed upon by them.
 
The Case
 
In this appeal, the petitioner seeks the reversal of the decision promulgated on April 23, 2004,1 whereby the Court of Appeals (CA) affirmed with modification the judgment2 rendered on July 11, 2002 by the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 61, in...