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Negros District Conference, Inc. vs Court of Appeals

NEGROS DISTRICT CONFERENCE, INC., REVEREND LEUMIN ALONSO, as Moderator of the Conference, REVEREND ARTURO JASON, as Moderator of the 1972 Conference and Spouses WINSTON MAYPA and CLARITA MAYPA, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, REVEREND LAMBERTO VA?O, as Pastor of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Bayawan, Negros Oriental, PACIFICO ASEDILLO, VIRGILIO SAAVEDRA, DOMINGO ANI?ON, JOCELYN SAGAYCA, ROQUE TUMALE, ELISA TUMALE, ELSIE SAAVEDRA, BASELISA MU?EZ and HERSHON MINGUITO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-57041 | 1981-10-23

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

The United Church of Christ in the Philippines has a church building erected on two unregistered parcels of land with an area of 51 square meters situated at the corner of the provincial road and General Luna Street near Iglesia Evangelica in the poblacion of Bayawan, Negros Oriental.

The executive committee of the Negros District Conference, Inc., voted on November 20, 1971 to approve the request of the "Bayawan Church" to exchange the site of its church building for the lot of the Maypa spouses (p. 44, Record on Appeal).

On November 15, 1972, the Dumaguete District Conference, Inc., through its moderator,...