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Lilia Canete,e tal. Vs. Gabriel Benedicto

LILIA CA?ETE, assisted by her husband, ANDRES D. MARA?ON, CRISPINA VDA. DE CA?ETE, IRENE, MARIA BELEN, NORMA and VICTORIA, all surnamed CA?ETE, plaintiffs-appellants, vs. GABRIEL BENEDICTO, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-55222 | 1988-03-14

D E C I S I O N


GRIá'O-AQUINO, J.:

This is an appeal from the order dated September 5, 1974 of the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental, dismissing on the ground of prescription the complaint of the heirs of the spouses Tomas Cañete and Teodora Jison to annul the Torrens title of Gabriel Benedicto to Lot No. 757 of the Pontevedra Cadastre with an area of more than twenty-eight hectares.

Plaintiffs alleged in their complaint dated June 13, 1974 that Lot No. 757 was originally registered in the names of the Cañete spouses in 1919; that said spouses possessed and cultivated it up to the outbreak of the war; that...