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Barias, Filomeno vs. Eduardo Alcantara, et al.

FILOMENO BARIAS, petitioner, vs. EDUARDA ALCANTARA and COURT OF APPEALS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-56564 | 1982-10-18

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

In this agrarian case, the question is whether Filomeno Barias was "constructively ejected" from the seven-hectare land of his father, Domingo, where he was allegedly a tenant since 1945, when he was sixteen years old, and whether he should be maintained in the peaceful possession thereof.

Filomeno's stepmother, Eduarda Alcantara Vda. de Barias, contends that Filomeno was never a tenant on that land and that he entered the land after his father's death in 1977.

The resolution of that issue requires an examination of the voluminous record. The decisions of the trial court and the Court of Appeals and the...