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Saliwan, et al. Vs. Arores, et al.

CARLOS SALIWAN and IGMIDIO SALIWAN, plaintiffs-appellee, vs. ANTONIO AMORES (CALIWAN) and FRANCISCA CALIWAN, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-26356 | 1973-06-27

D E C I S I O N

TEEHANKEE, J:

In this appeal on purely questions of law, the Court sustains the appeal and reverses the adverse decision of the Samar court of first instance ordering defendants-appellants to deliver possession of the lands in question to plaintiffs-appellees, notwithstanding its findings that "plaintiffs' possession is unlawful" and that defendants are the children of the acknowledged original owner of the lands, Monico Amores, whose rights and ownership were transmitted upon his death to defendants as his sole and rightful heirs.

The case originated as a forcible entry case filed on 10 April 1962 by plaintiffs, "in...