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Angel Baltazar vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

ANGEL BALTAZAR, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS (Seventh Division) and FLORA L. ESGUERRA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-40191 | 1981-05-27

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J:

By this petition, Angel Baltazar seeks a review of the Decision of respondent Court of Appeals, 1 promulgated on 22 October 1974 (in CA-G.R. No. 46454-R, "Flora L. Esguerra vs. Angel Baltazar") dismissing the ejectment suit against a tenant filed by a landowner who wanted to convert her land into a residential subdivision, but denying to the tenant the right of redemption, premised upon the retroactive application of Presidential Decrees Nos. 27 and 316.

The antecedents of the case disclose that since 1912, petitioner Angel Baltazar was the share tenant over two (2) parcels of riceland (Lots Nos....