DIZON VS CABUCANA
THIRD DIVISION [ A.C. No. 10185, March 12, 2014 ] LICERIO DIZON, COMPLAINANT, VS. ATTY. MARCELINO CABUCANA, JR., RESPONDENT. Facts: complainant alleged that he was one of the would-be-buyers of a parcel of land owned by the heirs of the late Florentino Callangan, who were parties in Civil Case filed before the Municipal Trial Court; that, a compromise agreement was executed by the parties in the said case and notarized before Atty. Cabucana on the same date it was signed at the MTCC; that at the hearing conducted regarding the due execution and the veracity of the compromise agreement, the signatories therein testified that they signed the instrument in the court room of MTCC but not in the presence of Atty. Cabucana as Notary Public; that because of the irregularity in the due execution of the Compromise Agreement, there was undue delay in the resolution/decision of Civil Case which caused damage and injury to complainant; that Atty. Cabucana violated the Notarial Law in notarizing th...