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Eunaria B. Vda. De Guilas, Et Al. vs. Ananias David, Et Al.

EUNARIA B. VDA. DE GUILAS, DOMINGO B. GUILAS, TRINIDAD G. TATLONGHARI, EDUARDO B. GUILAS, LUISA G. ZARAGOSA, FEDERICO B. GUILAS, CECILIANO B. GUILAS, JR., NICOMEDES B. GUILAS, FELICITAS B. GUILAS, and PEDRO DAVID, petitioners, vs. ANANIAS DAVID, ROSALLO MERCADO, and The HON. PASTOR DE GUZMAN, Judge, Court of Agrarian Relations, Branch III, Fifth Regional District, respondents.

G.R. No. L-24280 | 1968-05-27

D E C I S I O N 


CONCEPCION, C.J.: 

Appeal from a decision of the Court of Agrarian Relations. 

It appears that petitioners are co-owners of a parcel of riceland, situated in the barrio of San Matias, Guagua, Pampanga, which, since October 1962, was under cultivation by respondent Ananias David, as petitioners' tenant. Sometime in 1963, David sold his "right to work" on the land, to respondent Rosallo 1 Mercado, who, thereupon, planted thereon. Since the sale and the planting had been made without the knowledge and consent of petitioners, who were unwilling to have Mercado as tenant, in substitution of David, on November 1,...