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Francisco Baligwat vs. Court of Appeals, Et Al.

FRANCISCO BALIGWAT, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS and ALBINO ESTAVAS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-44678 | 1986-04-08

D E C I S I O N


PATAJO, J:

In this petition for review of the decision of the then Court of Appeals dated July 20, 1976, petitioner, the tenant of private respondent over 1 ½ hectares land devoted exclusively to coconut trees, seeks a ruling from this Court that personal cultivation by the landowner, one of the grounds for the dispossession of a tenant under Section 50 of Republic Act 1199, otherwise known as the Agricultural Tenancy Act of the Philippines, had been repealed by Section 7 of Republic Act 6389, and that, therefore, he could not be ejected from the landholding in question on the alleged ground that the landowner...