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Santos, Miguel vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

SPOUSES MIGUEL SANTOS and ALBINA SANTOS and SPOUSES GENARO DEL ROSARIO, petitioners, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, HON. COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF MANILA (BRANCH XXXV), HON. CITY COURT OF MANILA (BRANCH XII) and SPOUSES LAZARO A. PARAGUA and TEODORA T. PARAGUA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-45071 | 1983-05-30

D E C I S I O N


VASQUEZ, J.:

Since 1964, private respondents, the spouses Lazaro Paragua and Teodora Paragua, have been renting a one-door apartment located at No. 1222-D Oroquieta Street, Sta. Cruz, Manila, for their residence and that of their four then unmarried children.

Sometime in 1972, they bought a three-door apartment house located at the corner of E. Remigio and Felix Huertas Streets, Sta. Cruz, Manila. At the time they purchased the said property, one of the units in said apartment building was occupied by petitioners-spouses Miguel Santos and Albina Santos. A second unit was tenanted by petitioners-spouses Genaro del...