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Pintacasi vs. CAR

BENIGNA H. PINTACASI, petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF AGRARIAN RELATIONS and GRACIANO JAPSON, respondents.

G.R. No. L-23704 | 1972-07-28

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

There is nothing enviable about the inability of a widow, whose husband, the landholder, was killed by a tenant, but yet unable to terminate such relationship prior to a judgment of conviction. That was the situation of plaintiff Benigna H. Pintacasi, now petitioner, whose suit for ejectment against the defendant Graciano Japson, now respondent, did not prosper. The Court of Agrarian Relations, likewise named respondent, relying on the literal language of the then applicable Agricultural Tenancy Act, specifying as a cause for the dispossession of a tenant conviction by a competent court of a crime against a...