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Chua Peng Hian, Patrick vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

PATRICK CHUA PENG HIAN, doing business as Nueva Ecija Lumber, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, EMILIANA R. VENERACION and the HEIRS of the late MIGUEL VENERACION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-60015 | 1984-12-19

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

This case is about the recovery of possession of a leased lot where the lessee bound himself to transfer to the lessor the building which he erected thereon.

Miguel C. Veneracion, owner of a 2,194-square-meter lot located at 787 Melencio Street, Cabanatuan City, leased it in 1948 to Patrick Chua Peng Hian for ten years. The lease was renewed for another ten years.

Chua constructed on that lot a two-storey building where he conducted his sawmill and lumber business on the ground floor. He and his family occupied the second floor as residence.

On May 25, 1968, after the second lease agreement had expired,...