SECOND DIVISION
[G.R. No. 249218. January 22, 2020.]
ERLINDA B. CLARO, ELSIE B. AVENIDO, AND ALFREDO L. BENTULAN, petitioners, vs.JULIETA O. DEL VALLE, ASSISTED BY HER HUSBAND, CYRIL DEL VALLE, respondent.
NOTICE
Sirs/Mesdames :
Please take notice that the Court, Second Division, issued a Resolution dated22 January 2020which reads as follows:
"G.R. No. 249218 (Erlinda B. Claro, Elsie B. Avenido, and Alfredo L. Bentulan v. Julieta O. Del Valle, assisted by her husband, Cyril Del Valle). — The Court resolves to GRANT petitioners Erlinda B. Claro, Elsie B. Avenido, and Alfredo L. Bentulan's (petitioners) motion for extension of thirty (30) days from the expiration of the reglementary period within which to file a petition for review on certiorari.
After a Judicious study of the case, the Court further resolves to DENY the instant petition 1 and AFFIRM the June 29, 2018 Decision 2 and the August 29, 2019 Resolution 3 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. SP No. 10494 for failure of petitioners to sufficiently show that the CA committed any reversible error in affirming the rulings of the court a quo. aScITE
As correctly ruled by the CA, respondent Julieta O. Del Valle is lawfully entitled to ownership and possession of the subject property by virtue of the certificate of title 4 in her name. 5 Likewise, the CA correctly held that petitioners failed to substantiate their defense of ownership for lack of sufficient evidence to prove the purported oral contract of sale. 6 In this regard, case law provides that a certificate of title, as the best proof of ownership of land, prevails over bare and unsubstantiated allegations of ownership, and must be presumed valid in the absence of contrary evidence. 7 Moreover, it bears stressing that factual findings of the trial courts, when adopted and confirmed by the CA, are binding and conclusive on this Court and will generally not be reviewed on appeal, absent any of the exceptions laid down by jurisprudence, 8 as in this case.
SO ORDERED. (Reyes, A., Jr. and Hernando, JJ., on official leave. Delos Santos, J., no part due to prior action in the CA, Reyes, J., Jr., J., designated Additional Member per Raffle dated January 6, 2020.)" DETACa
Very truly yours,
(SGD.) TERESITA AQUINO TUAZONDeputy Division Clerk of Court
Footnotes
1.Rollo, pp. 12-26.
2.Id. at 68-76. Penned by Associate Justice Edward B. Contreras with Associate Justices Edgardo L. Delos Santos (now a member of this Court) and Louis P. Acosta, concurring.
3.Id. at 40-41. Penned by Associate Justice Edward B. Contreras with Associate Justices Edgardo L. Delos Santos (now a member of this Court) and Emily R. Aliño-Geluz, concurring.
4. Not attached to the rollo.
5. See rollo, p. 35.
6. See id. at 36.
7. See Spouses Cruz v. Heirs of So Hiong, G.R. No. 228641, November 5, 2018.
8. See Insular Investment and Trust Corporation v. Capital One Equities Corporation, 686 Phil. 819, 830-831 (2012).