[G.R. No. 216720. April 20, 2015.]
SPOUSES MARCIANO CUBANGBANG AND REMEGIA LISING, petitioners, vs. AUGUSTO N. CONDE, respondent.
NOTICE
Sirs/Mesdames :
Please take notice that the Court, First Division, issued a Resolution datedApril 20, 2015 which reads as follows:
"G.R. No. 216720 (Spouses Marciano Cubangbang and Remegia Lising v. Augusto N. Conde). — After a judicious review of the records, the Court resolves to DENY the instant petition and AFFIRM the January 30, 2015 Decision 1 of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CV No. 100513 for failure of Spouses Marciano Cubangbang and Remegia Lising (petitioners-spouses) to show that the CA committed any reversible error in ruling that there exists a lessor-lessee relationship between them and Augusto N. Conde (respondent); and thus, they cannot claim a better title than respondent over the subject land. As such, they must reconvey the same to the latter.
As correctly ruled by the CA, as mere lessees of the subject land, petitioners-spouses are estopped from claiming ownership over the same against respondent. It is settled that the juridical relationship between a lessor and a lessee carries with it the recognition of the lessor's title. The lessee is estopped from denying the landlord's title, or to assert a better title not only for himself, but also for some other third person while he remains in possession of the subject land and until he surrenders possession to the landlord. This estoppel applies even though the lessor had no title at the time the relation of the lessor and the lessee was created, and may be asserted not only by the original lessor, but also by those who succeed to his title. Verily, once a contract of lease is shown to exist between the parties, the lessee cannot by any proof, however strong, overturn the conclusive presumption that the lessor has a valid title or a better right of possession to the subject premises than the lessee. 2
The Court of Appeals is hereby DELETED as party respondent in the case pursuant to Sec. 4, Rule 45, 1997 Rules of Civil Procedure, as amended.
SO ORDERED." EcTCAD
Very truly yours,
(SGD.) EDGAR O. ARICHETADivision Clerk of Court
Footnotes
1. Rollo, pp. 12-26. Penned by Associate Justice Apolinario D. Bruselas, Jr. with Associate Justices Danton Q. Bueser and Maria Elisa Sempio Diy, concurring.
2. See Samelo v. Manotok Services, Inc., G.R. No. 170509, June 27, 2012, 675 SCRA 132, 142.