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SECOND DIVISION

[G.R. No. L-13632. July 27, 1960. ]

FEDERICO DE LOS ANGELES, ET AL., Petitioners, v. HON. GUSTAVO VICTORIANO, as Judge of the Court of First Instance of Rizal, Branch I, BENITO MACROHON, as ex-oficio Sheriff of the province of Rizal and VICENTE SANTIAGO, Respondents.

Jose W. Diokno, for Petitioners.

Ignacio M. Orendain for Respondents.


SYLLABUS


1. JUDGMENTS; EXECUTION; RIGHT OF PREVAILING PARTY TO EXECUTION OF FINAL DECISION. — Under section 1, Rule 39 of the Rules of Court, the prevailing party is entitled, as a matter of right, to the execution of a final decision, and it becomes the ministerial duty of the court to issue the writ of execution. (Fiesta v. Llorente, 25 Phil., 554; Lim v. Singian, 37 Phil., 817; Buenaventura v. Garcia, 78 Phil., 759; Ebero v. Cañizares, 79 Phil., 152; Manansala v. Narvasa, Et Al., G. R. No. L-10223, August 29, 1957.) In the instant case, the motion to execute the decision did not call for the adjudication of new and independent matters. There is no showing or even an allegation of any just or valid cause for opposing its execution. Hence, the proceedings for execution in the court below should not be disturbed.


R E S O L U T I O N


GUTIERREZ DAVID, J.:


This is an original action for certiorari and prohibition with preliminary injunction to annul an order of execution and writ of possession issued by the Court of First Instance of Rizal in Civil Case No. 7951, entitled "Vicente Santiago, Plaintiff, v. Sixto de los Angeles Et. Al., Defendants," and to restrain the provincial sheriff of Rizal from carrying out the same into effect.

The record shows that said Civil Case No. 7951 was originally decided in favor of the defendants, herein petitioners, but, on appeal to the Court of Appeals, the decision was reversed (CA-G.R. No. 16631-R). The dispositive part of the decision of the appellate court dated June 20, 1957 reads as follows:red:chanrobles.com.ph

"POR TANTO, con revocación de la sentencia apelada y sobreseimiento de la contrademanda, se declara al apelante dueño legitimo del terreno cuestionado y se ordena a los apelados y a sus agentes que desalojen el mismo. Se condena a los demandados al pago de las costas procesales y de la cantidad de P300.00 anuales desde la fecha en que fueron emplasados de la demanda fechada el 26 de Diciembre de 1940 hasta el dia de la entrega de la posesión de la propiedad litigada, con exclusión de los años en que duró la
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