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Ernesto Del Rosario vs. Victorino De Los Santos, Et Al.

ERNESTO DEL ROSARIO, petitioner, vs. VICTORINO DE LOS SANTOS, TOMAS DE LOS SANTOS and THE COURT OF AGRARIAN RELATIONS, respondents.

G.R. Nos. L-20589-90 | 1968-03-21

D E C I S I O N 


FERNANDO, J.: 

This petition for the review of a decision of the Court of Agrarian Relations represents still another attempt to assail the validity of Section 14 of the Agricultural Tenancy Act of 1955, 1 which empowers a tenant "to change the tenancy contract from one of share tenancy to the leasehold tenancy and vice versa and from one crop- sharing arrangement to another of the share tenancy." Such attempts in the past on the part of landowners were singularly unsuccessful, its validity having been consistently upheld. A similar fate is in store for the effort of petitioner-landowner in this case. The decision...