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Rufino Geralde vs. Andres Y. Sabido

RUFINO GERALDE, IGLICERIO GERALDE, AMBROSIO GERALDE, SILVINO GERALDE, CLAUDIO GERALDE, BASILISO GERALDE, SUSANO GERALDE, MATEA G. GICA, EUFRECINA G. MATA, DULCE G. NU?EZ, FELICIDAD G. BATALUNA, BERNARDA G. CANDIA, DAMIANA G. SIGA and FAUSTINA G. PILAPIL, petitioners, vs. JUDGE ANDRES Y. SABIDO, Court of First Instance of Cebu, Danao City Branch X and FELIX CAPUNGAN and Spouse, respondents.

G.R. No. L-35440 | 1982-08-19

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

This case is about res judicata. According to the fourteen petitioners, they are the legal heirs of Dominga Salinas who died intestate in Danao, Cebu in 1937, leaving an 852-square-meter "nipa-land" which adjoined a lot with an area of 139 square meters belonging to Ambrosio Geralde and which is located in Barrio Taboc-Looc, Danao City.

In 1949, Felix Capungan allegedly leased from petitioner Ambrosio Geralde the latter's 139-square-meter lot. In 1968 Capungan secured a tax declaration for the said 139 square meters of land and for a portion of Dominga's adjoining lot with an area of 221 square meters, or a...