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ARB CONSTRUCTION CO., INC., and MARK MOLINA vs. COURT OF APPEALS, TBS SECURITY AND INVESTIGATION AGENCY represented by CECILIA R. BACLAY G.R. No. 126554. May 31, 2000 Facts: 1.       TBS Security and Investigation Agency (TBSS) entered into two Service Contracts with ARBC wherein TBSS agreed to provide and post security guards in the five establishments being maintained by ARBC. 2.       This contract shall be effective for a period of one year and shall be considered automatically renewed for the same period unless otherwise a written notice of termination shall have been given by one party to the other party thirty days in advance. 3.       In a letter ARBC informed TBSS of its desire to terminate the Service Contracts. 4.       ARBC through its Vice President for Operations, Mark Molina, informed TBSS that it was replacing its security guards with those of Global Securit...

J.L.T. AGRO, INC., REPRESENTED BY ITS MANAGER, JULIAN L. TEVES VS. ANTONIO BALANSAG AND HILARIA CADAYDAY G.R. No. 141882, March 11, 2005 TINGA, J.: Facts: Don Julian L. Teves contracted two marriages, first with Antonia Baena, and after her death, with Milagros Donio Teves. Don Julian had two children with Antonia, namely: Josefa Teves Escaño and Emilio Teves. He had also four (4) children with Milagros Donio, namely: Maria Evelyn Donio Teves, Jose Catalino Donio Teves, Milagros Reyes Teves and Pedro Reyes Teves. The present controversy involves a parcel of land. When Antonia died, the land was among the properties involved in an action for partition and damages, the second wife of Don Julian, participated as an intervenor. Thereafter, the parties to the case entered into a Compromise Agreement which embodied the partition of all the properties of Don Julian. Paragraph 13 of the Compromise Agreement, at the heart of the present dispute, lays down the effect of the eventual ...

FLORANTE F. MANACOP vs. COURT OF APPEALS and E & L MERCANTILE, INC., G.R. No. 97898 August 11, 1997 Facts:           Petitioner Florante F. Manacop and his wife Eulaceli purchased on March 10, 1972 a residential lot with a bungalow, in consideration of P75,000.00. On March 17, 1986, Private Respondent E & L Merchantile, Inc. filed a complaint against petitioner and F.F. Manacop Construction Co., Inc. before the Regional Trial Court of Pasig, Metro Manila to collect an indebtedness of P3,359,218.45. Instead of filing an answer, petitioner and his company entered into a compromise agreement with private respondent, the salient portion of which provides: That defendants will undertake to pay the amount of P2,000,000.00 as and when their means permit, but expeditiously as possible as their collectibles will be collected. On April 20, 1986, the trial court rendered judgment approving the aforementioned compromise agreement. It en...