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Spouses De los Reyes vs. Ramolete, et al. 122 SCRA 652

SPOUSES PABLO DE LOS REYES and ALEJANDRA DE LOS REYES, petitioners, vs. HONORABLE JUDGE JOSE R. RAMOLETE, Court of First Instance of Cebu, Branch III, and CARMEN R. CANTOS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-47331 | 1983-06-21

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, C.J.:

The right sought to be vindicated in this certiorari proceeding by petitioners, plaintiffs in the lower court, arose from the undisputed fact that they are bona fide holders and possessors since 1949 of a parcel of land consisting of 6,163 square meters whereon they built that same year their residence. They still have a pending miscellaneous sales application with the Bureau of Lands for such property. They thereafter discovered that their house occupied five meters of the adjoining lot, at the time of the construction in 1949 still public land but subsequently applied for in a miscellaneous sales application...