Back

Yap, Donato Reyes, et al. Vs. Ezekiel S. Grageda, et al.

DONATO REYES YAP and MELITONA MARAVILLAS, petitioners, vs. HON. EZEKIEL S. GRAGEDA, as Judge of the Court of First Instance of Albay and JOSE A. RICO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-31606 | 1983-03-28

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

We are asked in this petition to review the amended decision of the respondent court which declared as absolutely null and void the sale of a residential lot in Guinobatan, Albay to a Chinese national and ordered its reconveyance to the vendors thirty years after the sale inspite of the fact that the vendee had been a naturalized Filipino citizen for fifteen years at the time.

We grant the petition. The questioned decision and the order amending it are reversed and set aside.

The facts are not disputed.

On April 12, 1939, Maximino Rico, for and in his own behalf and that of the minors Maria Rico,...