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Juan Evangelista Vs. Guillermo Monta?o 093 Phil 275

JUAN EVANGELISTA, petitioner, vs. GUILLERMO MONTA?O, FLORENCIO TAYTAY, and TITO PAZ, respondents.

G.R. No. L-5567 | 1953-05-29

D E C I S I O N


TUASON, J.:

This is an appeal by certiorari from the Court of Appeals.

The plaintiff brought the action to recover certain portions of a parcel of land which he bought from one Juana Dalisay on September 29, 1947, and which Tito Paz, Guillermo Montaño and Florencio Taytay, defendants, were severally occupying under claim of ownership. These defendants resisted the action on the ground that they were the owners of their respective lots through purchases, while the others disclaimed any interest in the suit.

The Court of Appeals found these facts to have been established:

". . . on July 20, 1933, there was issued...