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[ GR No. L-9893, Apr 13, 1956 ]

MAURA LUMANLAN +

DECISION

98 Phil. 815

[ GR. No. L-9893, April 13, 1956 ]

MAURA LUMANLAN, ET AL., PETITIONERS IS THE HONORABLE BERNABE DE AQUINO, ET AL., RESPONDENTS.

D E C I S I O N

JUGO, J.:

On August  28,  1950,  the Court of  First Instance  of Tarlac rendered the following  judgment:

"In view of all the foregoing, the  Court renders judgment to the,following effect:
"a. Dismissing plaintiff's action for specific  performance against defendants, as well as 'his action for money claims against defendant Basilio Yalung.

"b. Dismissing  intervenors' claim for indemnity  and damages against plaintiff.

"c. Declaring, plaintiff absolute owner  of the whole of the  land in question by virtue of the constructive  repurchase of the said land in question from the intervenors.

"d. Ordering the Register  of Deeds of  Tarlac to rancel Transfer Certificate  of  Title No. 19408, and  issue  in lieu theivuf a transfer certificate of Title in the names of the  plaintiff Primo Aramtralo and his spouse Loreta Sevilla  de Arambulo,  the  property here in question having been acquired  by  the  said  spouses as conjugal property.
The  intervenors, petitioners  herein, appealed  to  the Court of Appeals,  which,  court rendered the  following judgment:
"In  view of the foregoing, the decision appealed from is modified and plaintiff-appellee is  given thirty  (30)  days  from the time final judgment  is entered,  to pay the appellants  P3,200  in legal tender; whereupon, appellants shall execute  a proper deed  of reconveyance of the land in question to the  appellee.  Without costs in this instance'
From said  decision  of the  Court of Appeals, the  intervenors appealed by way of certiorari to  the Supreme  Court in G. R. Nos. L-6501 and L-6599.   The  Supreme  Court affirmed in toto said decision of the Court of Appeals.

To redeem the above property, Primo Arambulo,  the respondent  herein, deposited  with the  Clerk of Court of First Instance of Tarlac the  sum of P3.200  on September 29, 1955.  This was within the  term of  thirty days fixed  by the  Court of Appeals, for  the reason that said term should be counted not from the date that Arambulo received form the Supreme Court notice  of its decision, but from the  date that  he received notice  from the  Court of  First Instance of Tarlac that   the  decision  of  the Supreme  Court had been received there,  because it was the Court of First Instance of Tarlac which had the duty to  execute  its  judgment as  affirmed  by the  Court  of Appeals and the Supreme Court.

The Court of First  Instance of Tarlac issued the following order:
* * * The intervenors may now collect  from  the clerk of Court the amount  of P3,200  deposited to their  account  by  appellee Primo Arambulo, but at  the same time said  intervenors must  execute in favor of Primo Arambulo the deed of reconveyance ordered by the Court of Appeals for them to execute in favor of the appellee
Inasmuch, as  said  order  is  in  accordance  with  the decisions of  the  Court  of Appeals  and  this Court,  the petition asking for the annulment of said  order is denied, with  costs against petitioners.   So ordered.

ParĂ¡s, C. J., Bengzon, Padilla,  Montemayor, Reyes, A., Bautista Angelo, Labrador, Concepcion, Reyes, J. B, L., and Endencia, JJ., concur.

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