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Racimo vs. Dino

CIRIACO RACIMO, plaintiff-appellee, vs. ARCADIO DINO, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-27804 | 1976-02-27

D E C I S I O N 

AQUINO, J: 

On May 27, 1958 Ciriaco Racimo, who had leased from the Manila Railroad Company since 1945 a lot located at Tramo Street, Barrio San Dionisio, Parañaque, Rizal, which he had subleased to Arcadio Diño, filed against him an unlawful detainer action in the justice of the peace court of that municipality (Civil Case No. 584). 

Diño in his answer pleaded as defenses that Racimo had no cause of action against him because it was the Manila Railroad Company that could eject him and that it was the Court of First Instance of Rizal that had jurisdiction over the case because he had been occupying the lot for...