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Castro vs. Escutin

ALEXANDER T. CASTRO, plaintiff-appellant, vs. LUIS ESCUTIN, Administrator in Special Proceeding No. V-2033, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-27406 | 1979-05-31

D E C I S I O N

ABAD SANTOS, J:

This is an appeal from the decision of the Court of First Instance, Branch I, of Capiz in Civil Case No. V-2681, for recovery of property, consisting of 30 parcels of land and of unpaid rentals for their cultivation.

Plaintiff-appellant Alexander Castro is the adopted son of the late Father Eduardo N. Castro, parish priest of Tanjay, Negros Oriental. Defendant-appellee Luis Escutin is one of the heirs, and the administrator of the testate estate, of the late Nicanor Escutin, who died in 1955. Upon Nicanor's death, Special Proceedings No. V-2033 over his testate estate was filed in the Court of First...