445 SCRA 529 FACTS: Sometime in 1998, complainant Federico Ramos went to respondent Atty. Patricio Ngaseo's Makati office to engage his services as counsel in a case involving a piece of land in San Carlos, Pangasinan. Respondent agreed to handle the case for an acceptance fee of P20,000.00, appearance fee of P1,000.00 per hearing and [...]

196 SCRA 302 FACTS: In 1933, complainant Paulino Valencia (Paulino in short) and his wife Romana allegedly bought a parcel of land, where they built their residential house, from a certain Serapia Raymundo, an heir of Pedro Raymundo the original owner. However, they failed to register the sale or secure a transfer certificate of title [...]

51 SCRA 120 FACTS: On August 31, 1964, plaintiff Domingo D. Rubias, a lawyer, filed a suit to recover the ownership and possession of certain portions of lot located in Barrio General Luna, Barotac Viejo, Iloilo which he bought from his father-in-law, Francisco Militante in 1956 against its present occupant defendant, Isaias Batiller, who illegally [...]

G.R. No. L-28771, 31 March 1971, 38 SCRA 284 FACTS: The plaintiff, now appellant Cornelia Matabuena, a sister to the deceased Felix Matabuena, maintains that a donation made while he was living maritally without benefit of marriage to defendant, now appellee Petronila Cervantes, was void. The lower court, after noting that it was made at [...]

G.R. No. 212686, 28 September 2015, 771 SCRA 559 FACTS: Petitioner seeks to enjoin the sale of the Naga Power Plant Complex (NPPC) to respondent SPC Power Corporation (SPC) resulting from the latter’s exercise of the right to top the winning bid of respondent Therma Power Visayas, Inc. (TPVI). Respondent PSALM, established by law whose [...]

G.R. No. 135929, 20 April 2001, 357 SCRA 209 FACTS: Respondents offered to sell to petitioner a parcel of land consisting of 48, 260 square meters, situated in Barrio San Dionisio, Parañaque, Metro Manila where the latter agreed to buy the property at the price of P34.00 per square meter and gave the sum of [...]

G.R. No. L-31018, 29 June 1973, 51 SCRA 439 FACTS: This is a suit for specific performance filed by Lorenzo Velasco against the Magdalena Estate, Inc. on the allegation that on November 29, 1962 the plaintiff and the defendant had entered into a contract of sale by virtue of which the defendant offered to sell [...]

G.R. Nos. 153745-46, 14 October 2015, 772 SCRA 244 FACTS: Sometime in 1982, San Juan Macias Memorial Park, Inc. (SJMMPI), through its President Lourdes S. Pascual, authorized Atty. Soledad de Jesus to look for a buyer for the San Juan Memorial Park (Memorial Park) for P1,500,000.00. Thereafter, Lourdes Pascual, Leonila F. Acasio, and the other [...]

G.R. No. 137845, 9 September 2004 FACTS: Spouses Nilus and Teresita Sacramento were the owner of the parcel of land and house constructed at MadalingAraw St., Teresita Heights Subd., Novaliches, Quezon City. Spouses Sacramento mortgaged the property with the SSS as security for their housing loan and likewise surrendered the owner’s and duplicate copies of [...]

G.R. No. 135528, 14 July 2004, 434 SCRA 365 FACTS: Petitioner Spouses Rayos, secured a short-term loan from the Philippine Savings Bank (PSB). To secure the payment of the loan, the petitioners executed, on the same date, a Real Estate Mortgage over their property in Las Piñas. The petitioners, as vendors, and the respondents Spouses [...]