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Heirs of Pedro Medina vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

THE HEIRS OF PEDRO MEDINA, represented by MARGARITA MEDINA, petitioners, vs. THE HON. COURT OF APPEALS*, RESTITUTA ZURBITO VDA. DE MEDINA and ANDRES NAVARRO, JR., respondents.

G.R. No. L-26107 | 1981-11-27

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, J.:

The Court upholds the decision of the Court of Appeals which dismissed petitioners' complaint to recover from private respondents a parcel of land situated in Oac, Milagros, Masbate, together with the Spanish title (Titulo Real No. 349581) covering it. The Court of Appeals correctly found that petitioners failed to prove their claim that respondents were holding the property on the basis of an express trust, the existence of which, according to law and to established jurisprudence, cannot be proven by mere parol evidence and cannot rest on vague and uncertain evidence or on loose, equivocal or indefinite...