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Juana Farinas Vda. De Baclig Vs. Extor Serrano105 Phil 657

JUANA FARINAS VDA. DE BACLIG, ET AL., plaintiffs-appellants, vs. EXTOR SERRANO, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-12515 | 1959-04-30

D E C I S I O N


BAUTISTA ANGELO, J.:

Plaintiffs brought this action in the Court of First Instance of Rizal for the annulment of a certain document whereby Juana Farinas Vda. de Baclig released in favor of defendant a portion of public agricultural land which was the subject of a sales application then pending consideration by the Bureau of Lands.

Plaintiffs are the heirs of one Eustaquio Baclig, Sr., who died in 1944. They alleged that in 1932 Baclig filed a sales application to buy a parcel of public agricultural land situated in Kiangan, Mt. Province; that in 1934 Baclig placed defendant as his overseer to take care of the cultivation of...