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Fortunato Bollozos, etal. Vs. Yu Tieng Su

FORTUNATO BOLLOZOS, ANDREA BOLLOZOS VDA. DE RAPANOT, PABLO B. CALAM, EPIFANIA B. BEVERA, SERGIO B. CALAM, GUALBERTO B. CALAM, IGNACIO B. CALAM, JOSE B. CALAM, JR. and CAROLINA B. CALAM, plaintiff-appellees, vs. YU TIENG SU, alias SISO YU, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-29442 | 1987-11-11

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The original protagonists in this controversy have long since passed away into "the tongueless silence of the dreamless dust" and are now but mute witnesses to this litigation. We can now go only by the musty records that will take us back to more than half a century ago, before the period of the Commonwealth.

This case was formally commenced on January 20, 1968, with the filing of a complaint for the recovery of a 1.2 hectare parcel of land and accounting for its use from defendant Yu, the herein appellant. The plaintiffs claimed that the said land had been delivered to him only for administration so he could...