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Leonila Reyes, et al. Vs. Isabel Canivel-Reyes, et al.

LEONILA REYES and JOSE REYES, petitioners-appellants, vs. ISABEL CANIVEL REYES, as Administratrix of the Estate of Ma. Carmen Castor, and INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-69273 | 1985-10-18

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

This case is about the validity of the free patent alleged to have been fraudulently obtained by Leonila R. Reyes for Lot 1481 with an area of 2,390 square meters located at McKinley Street, Plaza Washington, near the municipal building of Candaba, Pampanga.

In the extrajudicial partition of the estate of the deceased spouses, Policarpio Castor and Anselma Pelayo, dated August 4, 1936, a house and lot, with an area of 2,457 square meters, located in the poblacion of Candaba, were adjudicated to their daughter, Maria Carmen Castor, while the adjoining lot, with an area of 967 square meters, was given to...