1. Manliguez v.

CA, 232 SCRA 427 (1994)

Facts: Employer was ordered in a final judgment to pay its employees. Writ of execution was issued and
enforced by levying on property. Manliguez filed a complaint which sought the lifting of the levy over, and
annulment of the sale of, the property on the ground that Manliguez was the owner of such property and
that the employer was just leasing it from him.
Held: Where the civil case is to lift levy over and annulment of the sale of the property on the ground that
it was not owned by the respondent in the labor case, the civil court has jurisdiction. Where the action
attacked the regularity of the
issuance of the writ of execution in the labor case, the labor officials have jurisdiction. If the action does
not attack the issuance, but the manner of execution, the civil courts have jurisdiction.
***Note: In Tipait, there was an employer-employee relationship between the plaintiff in the civil case and
the judgment obligee in the labor case. In Manliguez, there was no such relationship.