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De La Cerna vs. Potot 120 Phil 1361 12 SCRA 576

PAULA DE LA CERNA, ET AL., petitioners, vs. MANUELA REBACA POTOT, ET AL., and THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-20234 | 1964-12-23

D E C I S I O N 
 
 
REYES, J.B.L., J.: 
 
Appeal by Paula de la Cerna and others from a decision of the Court of Appeals, Sixth Division (C.A.-G.R. No. 23763-R) reversing that of the Court of First Instance of Cebu (Civ. Case No. R-3819) and ordering the dismissal of an action for partition. 
 
The factual background appears in the following portion of the decision of the Court of Appeals (Petition, Annex A, pp 2-4): 
 
"It appears that on May 9, 1939, the spouses, Bernabe de la Cerna and Gervasia Rebaca, executed a joint last will and testament in the local dialect whereby they willed that...