m., more or less, covered by Transfer Certificate of Title No. 1706, with improvements thereon (subject property), situated in Batangas City, containing an area of 476 sq. It was alleged, inter alia, that: defendants are the registered owners of Lot No. Cipriano Pamplona and Bibiana Intac ("Bibiana", for brevity) for specific performance, conveyance, consignation and damages before the Regional Trial Court of Batangas City, docketed as Civil Case No. Cueto ("Lilia", for brevity) and Vedasto Cueto ("Vedasto", for brevity) against defendants Sps. The CA rendered the following factual and procedural antecedents:Īn Amended Complaint dated 20 November 1998 was filed by plaintiffs Sps. The CA further ordered the Register of Deeds of Batangas City to cancel the transfer certificate of title of the petitioners, and to issue a new one in favor of the respondents. 5120, and ordering the petitioners instead to execute a deed of sale on the property in favor of the respondents upon the release of the consigned amount. Under review is the decision promulgated on December 3, 2012, 1 whereby the Court of Appeals (CA) reversed the decision issued on Jby the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 8, in Batangas City dismissing the respondents' complaint in Civil Case No. The trial court sided with the petitioners but the appellate court reversed the trial court and ruled in favor of the respondents. This case involves conflicting claims between the parties involving their transaction over a parcel of land and its improvements, with the respondents claiming, on the one hand, that they had purchased the property on installment pursuant to an oral contract to sell, and the petitioners insisting, on the other, that the amounts paid by the respondents to them were in payment of the latter's indebtedness for a previous loan. SPOUSES CIPRIANO PAMPLONA and BIBIAN A INTAC, Petitioners
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