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Santos Bernardo, etal. Vs. Baltazar R. Dizon

SANTOS, RITA, SOLEDAD, LAUREANO, AURELIA, MAXIMIANA, JOSE, ANTONIO, ELIZABETH, MERCEDITA, BONIFACIO, REYNALDO, RUBEN, JR., ROGELIO, CARMELITA, BIENVENIDO, BENJAMIN, ROSALINA, PURA, LICERIO, NORMA, ROLANDO, ELEONOR, NENITA, AGUEDA, ROSA, RICARDO, LOURDES, YOLANDA, ERLINDA, ARTHUR, HERMOGENES, JR., ANGELITO, JUANITO, & EDUARDO, all surnamed BERNARDO: ELEUTERIO, MELQUIADES, LORENZO, & JESUS, all surnamed STA. ANA; FAVIOLA, ROBERTO, ROGELIO, DANTE, DANILO, & NELIA, all surnamed CRUZ; ARTHUR, MIGUEL, MARIA LIZA, MARIA LINA, & CRIZELDA, all surnamed MAPILI; NICANOR, RODOLFO, TERESITA, & RICHARD, all surnamed DE LEON; FLORENCIO, LOURDES, ARSENIO, CONSTANCIA & BIENVENIDO, all surnamed SANTOS; BERNARDO, BENJAMIN, MARIANO, & BENEDICTO, all surnamed HERNANDEZ; CARLOS, DOMINGA, JUANITA & RICARDO, all surnamed JOSE, petitioners, vs. THE HON. BALTAZAR R. DIZON, in his capacity as the temporary Presiding Judge of Br. CXII, RTC of Pasay City, ELVIRA REYES, PABLO L. VERBO, REGINA REYES, SPS. JUSTINO Z. BENITO & CONSOLACION CASTILLO, PEDRO AREZA, CONSTANCIO L. VERBO, SPS ESTANISLAO TABISORA & AURELIA OLAYBAR, SPS. ARMANDO B. ZAMBRANO and ADORACION PANELO, ANTONINA B. FERNANDEZ, HERMINIGILDO SICUAN, RODRIGO B. MALVAR, FRANCISCO SICUAN, SPS. TEODORICO TABIN & HONORARIA ZAMBRANO, SPS. MODESTO ZAMBRANO & MARIANITA MAGLAPIT, and SPS. ROBERTO ZAMBRANO and LIBERATA BALDERAS and their successors-in-interest ST. MARTIN MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION and others, respondents.

G.R. No. 75877 | 1988-09-26

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GRIá'O-AQUINO, J.:

This case involves two appeals by certiorari which were consolidated in this Court. The first is an appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeals; the second is a direct appeal, on a question of law, from a decision of the Regional Trial Court. Both appeals arose from the same order of the Regional Trial Court involving a parcel of land, Lot 4519 of the Parañaque Cadastre.

In 1959, Leonardo, Elena, Cipriano and Santos, all surnamed Bernardo, and Eladio de Leon y Bernardo filed a complaint in the Court of First Instance of Rizal against Agripina, Aurelia, Maxima, Ricardo, Francisco, Jimenez,...