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Hidalgo vs. Loto,et al

AURORA JIMENA-HIDALGO, plaintiff-appellee, vs. TORIBIO LOTO and ALFONSO LOTO, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-28024 | 1976-11-04

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

This is an ejectment case involving a few square meters of riceland. On February 26, 1966 Aurora Jimena-Hidalgo filed in the municipal court of Boac, Marinduque an action for forcible entry against Toribio Loto and his son Alfonso, both farmers.

Mrs. Hidalgo alleged that, as co-owner and overseer, she was in possession of a parcel of riceland, with an ares of 1,320 square meters, located at Barrio Mainit, Boac, owned by the heirs of the late Victor Jimena; that the said riceland is adjacent to the ricefield of Toribio Loto on the western side; that the western boundary between the two ricefields was an earthen...