Conde vs. CA

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CONDE VS CA before CFI of Leyte, contending that she had validly repurchased

the property.
G.R. No. L-40242 December 15, 1982
- Private respondents adduced evidence that Paciente Cordero only
Petitioner: DOMINGA CONDE signed the document of repurchase showing that he had no
Respondent: THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, MANILA objection to the repurchase of petitioner, and that he did not
PACIENTE CORDERO, together with his wife, NICETAS ALTERA, receive any consideration for the alleged property as repurchase.
RAMON CONDE, together with his wife, CATALINA T. CONDE - Lower Court dismissed the complaint. CA upheld the decision of
FACTS: the lower court.

- A Deed of Sale with a right to repurchase was executed between ISSUE:


petitioner Dominga Conde and the Alteras dated April 7, 1938; WON the Memorandum of Repurchase did not vest any title of the
the said terms of repurchase states that if at the end of 10 years property back to petitioner
the land is not repurchased, a new agreement shall be made
between the parties, and in no case title and ownership shall be HELD:
vested in the hand of the vendees
The SC ruled in favor of petitioner, and did not accept the parol
- In April 1941, the Cadastral Court adjudicated the land to the evidence presented by private respondents. The Memorandum of
Alteras “subject to the right of redemption by Dominga Conde repurchase was clear. It was even executed in Visayan Dialect which
within 10 years counting from April 7, 1938…” private respondent understood. Private respondent now is bound by
the clear terms of the memorandum. He cannot now dispute the
- In November 1945, private respondent Paciente Cordero, son-in- contents thereof.
law of the Alteras signed a document in the Visayan dialect. This
document stated that the Deed of Sale with Repurchase was lost There is nothing in the memorandum showing that Paciento Cordero
and that Pio Altera concedes the repurchase of the land by the signed the same merely to indicate that he had no objection to
Condes. However, this deed was not signed by Pio Altera or petitioner’s right of repurchase.
Casimira Pasagui. Petitioner maintains that because Pio Altera
was very ill that time, it was Peciente Cordero who executed the Dispositive: WHEREFORE, the judgment of respondent Court of
deed of resale on behalf of his father-in-law. Appeals is hereby REVERSED and SET ASIDE, and petitioner is hereby
declared the owner of the disputed property. If the original of OCT
- In 1965 Pio Altera sold the land to private respondents Sps. No. N-534 of the Province of Leyte is still extant at the office of the
Ramon and Catalina Conde. Dominga Conde filed an a complaint Register of Deeds, then said official is hereby ordered to cancel the
same and, in lieu thereof, issue a new Transfer Certificate of Title in
the name of petitioner, Dominga Conde.

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