JOHN CHRISTEN S. HEGNA, Complainant, vs. ATTY. GOERING G.C. PADERANGA, Respondent.
PETITIONER’S (COMPLAINANT) CLAIM:
RESPONDENT’S CLAIM:
ISSUE/S: is Atty. Paderanga guilty of engaging in dishonest and deceitful conduct?
RULING:
A.C. No. 5955 September 8, 2009
JOHN CHRISTEN S. HEGNA, Complainant, vs. ATTY. GOERING G.C. PADERANGA, Respondent.
D E C I S I O N
DEL CASTILLO, J.:
Before this Court is a letter-complaint1 dated June 3, 2002, filed by complainant John Christen S. Hegna with the Office of the Bar Confidant (OBC) against respondent Atty. Goering G.C. Paderanga for deliberately falsifying documents, which caused delay in the execution of the decision rendered by the Municipal Trial Courts in Cities (MTCC), Branch 8, Cebu City, in Civil Case No. R-45146, entitled John Hegna v. Mr. & Mrs. Eliseo Panaguinip.
Herein complainant was the lessee of a portion of Lot No. 5529, situated at Barangay Quiot Pardo, Cebu City, which was owned by the heirs of Sabina Baclayon. The heirs of Baclayon, through their representative Gema Sabandija, entered into a contract of lease with complainant for a period of ten (10) years, commencing from June 26, 1994, with a rental of P3,000.00 per year, or P250.00 per month.
On September 26, 2001, complainant filed a complaint for forcible entry against therein defendants docketed as Civil Case No. R-45146, entitled John Hegna v. Mr. & Mrs. Eliseo Panaguinip, with the Municipal Trial Court in Cities (MTCC), Branch 8 of Cebu City. In said complaint, he alleged that in about the second week of March 1996, therein defendants entered the vacant portion of the leased premises by means of force, intimidation, threat, strategy or stealth; destroyed the barbed wire enclosing the leased premises of complainant, then built a shop on the said premises without complainant’s consent. He averred that despite his demands upon therein defendants to vacate the premises