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Purificacion M. Maclan, etal. Vs. Mario Santos etal

PURIFICACION M. MACLAN, MABINI M. EUGENIO, TOBIAS MARCELO, ANTONIO MACLAN, FELIPE J. EUGENIO and JOSE P. MARCELO, petitioners, vs. MARIO L. SANTOS and the COURT OF APPEALS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-55074 | 1987-12-17

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

At issue in these proceedings is the correctness of a judgment of the Court of Appeals 1 reversing a decision of the Court of First Instance of Bulacan 2 which had dismissed the private respondent's suit to enjoin the petitioners from terminating the latter's lease of certain fishponds owned by the former.

The subject of the original action consists of three contiguous parcels of land measuring some 48-1/3 hectares in area, located in Paombong, Bulacan, and utilized as fishponds. One parcel, with an area of 156,578 square meters, is registered in the name of petitioners Purificacion M. Maclan and Mabini M....