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Felomena Fabio, et al. vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

FELOMENA, MARIA, GREGORIO, ANTIPAS, TEODORA, TERESITA, VICTORINA, ESTELITA, SOTERA and FELICISIMO, all surnamed FABIO, petitioners, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, TEOFILO FABIO, LILIA FABIO, MODESTA CATAYOC, ILUMINADA CATAYOC and PRIMO CONEJOS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-30434 | 1981-08-31

D E C I S I O N


GUERRERO, J.:

This is a Petition for Mandamus to compel respondent Court of Appeals to give due course to the appeal filed by herein petitioners docketed as C.A.-G.R. No. 36416-R, from a decision of the Court of First Instance of Leyte, Branch V, Ormoc City, in Civil Case No. 587-0.

Private respondents, in their Answer 1 to the Petition, do not dispute the following background facts set forth in the Petition:

Petitioners were defendants in a case filed by private respondents in the Court of First Instance of Leyte. Judgment was rendered against petitioners who filed with respondent Court of Appeals, within the...