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Torela vs. Torela 93 SCRA 391

CLARA TORELA AND SILVERIANA TORELA, appellants-petitioners, vs. FELIMON TORELA, MARCIANA GEPANAGO AND MARCOS MAHILUM AND THE COURT OF APPEALS, appellees-respondents.

G.R. No. L-27843 | 1979-10-11

D E C I S I O N

ABAD SANTOS, J:

Petitioners, whose complaint was dismissed both in the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental and in the Court of Appeals, would have us reverse the decision of the latter and declare the land in litigation as the conjugal property of their parents so that they will be entitled to their mother's share who had died.

The decision of the Court of Appeals which was penned by Mr. Justice Hermogenes Concepcion, Jr., now a distinguished member of this Court, is reproduced hereunder in its material aspects for the factual background of the case and to enable us to identify the legal problem.

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