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Marta Quiniano vs. Court of Appeals

MARTA QUINIANO, TEODORICO SOLIS, ALBINO CALDONA, ANTERO SANCHEZ, FELIX CAPITO and CELEDONIO FERMIN, petitioners, vs. The Hon. COURT OF APPEALS, LUISA BARBOSA, MARIA SARMIENTO, AGUEDA SARMIENTO, PETRA SARMIENTO, and RUFINA SARMIENTO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-23024 | 1971-05-31

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

What is sought to be reversed in this petition for the review of a decision of respondent Court of Appeals is its judgment sustaining an action for reconveyance of three parcels of land in favor of private respondents. 1 They were the victims of a fraud of which principal petitioner Marta Quiñiano 2 was held responsible, it being shown that she was able to obtain a free patent to the disputed lots to which private respondents were entitled by virtue of an extra-judicial partition, executed nine years previously. The law in its wisdom certainly has not left private respondents remediless. Any form of deceit...