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Catorce, Filomeno vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

FILOMENO CATORCE, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and PEDRO BAGAYAWA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-59762 | 1984-05-11

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

Petitioner Filomeno Catorce, a pauper litigant, seeks a review of the decision of the then Court of Appeals in CA-G. R. No. SP-13089-CAR setting aside, on a procedural ground, the judgment rendered in his favor by the former Court of Agrarian Relations, Branch II, Naga City, in CAR Case No. 6676-CS-80, for Reinstatement, Fixing of Leasehold Rentals and Damages, which he filed against private respondent Pedro Bagayawa.

The controversy stemmed from the following facts:

In 1954, petitioner was instituted tenant over a parcel of irrigated rice land situated at Sta. Cruz, Buhi, Camarines Sur, with an...