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Elpidio Marcelo vs. Reynaldo Matias, Et Al.

ELPIDIO MARCELO, petitioner, vs. REYNALDO MATIAS, PEDRO MANGAYAO, HONORIO GONZALES and HON. JOSE M. SANTOS, Presiding Judge, COURT OF AGRARIAN RELATIONS, Second Regional District, Cabanatuan City, respondents.

G.R. No. L-22252 | 1968-10-29

D E C I S I O N 


MAKALINTAL, J.: 

In this appeal from a decision of the Court of Agrarian Relations, Second Regional District, Cabanatuan City, petitioner- landowner assails the constitutionality of section 14 of Republic Act No. 1199 which expressly grants a tenant the right "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." 

Respondents-tenants Pedro Mangayao, Reynaldo Matias and Honorio Gonzales, taking advantage of Section 14, filed on May 22, 1962 a petition (CAR Case No. 3012-NE'62) before respondent...