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Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, Et Al. Vs. Leonardo Santos

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND LORENZO GREGORIO, plaintiff-appellees, vs. LEONARDO SANTOS, ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-2842 | 1906-11-24

D E C I S I O N


WILLARD, J.:

The plaintiffs brought this action to recover the possession of a chapel and the convent annexed thereto situated in the barrio of Concepcion, in pueblo of Tambobong, in the province of Rizal. It is stated in a document presented by the defendants that a chapel had existed on this site for more than one hundred years. The court below made the following finding of fact:

"Tercero. Que desde tiempo in memorial hasta el año de 1902 dicha capilla ha sido destinada costantemente a las ceremonias del culto de la religion Catolica Apostolica Romana habiendo sido invariables sacerdotes catolicos apostolicos...