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Leoncia T. Zaide vs. Court of Appeals, etal.

LEONCIA T. ZAIDE and PRIMITIVO ZAIDE, substituted by SIMEON TOLENTINO, Guardian ad litem of the Minors, PACITA, ALEX, MARIA ZERLINA, all surnamed ZAIDE, etc., petitioners, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, ROBERTO DE LEON and EDITA T. ZAIDE, respondents.

G.R. Nos. L-46715-16 | 1988-07-29

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

Edita Zaide and her husband, Roberto de Leon, were the registered owners of a parcel of land situated in Makati, Rizal, with an area of 201 square meters, covered by TCT No. 69088 of the Register of Deeds of Rizal.

Sometime in the middle sixties, Primitivo Zaide, Edita's brother, gave to Edita and her husband, Roberto de Leon, P2,000.00 as a loan, which the latter used to redeem the land mortgaged by them to the Pasay Rural Bank. At about this time, too, Primitivo Zaide and his wife, Leoncia T. Zaide, transferred ownership of a jitney 1 owned by them, valued at P7,000.00, to Roberto de Leon. It is the Zaide...