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Pedro Oliveras vs. Candido Lopez

PEDRO OLIVERAS, TEODORA GASPAR, MELECIO OLIVERAS and ANICETA MINOR, plaintiffs-appellees, vs. CANDIDO LOPEZ, SEVERO LOPEZ, HIPOLITO LOPEZ, EUGENIA LOPEZ, PRIMITIVO GASPAR, CORAZON LOPEZ, ALEJANDRO CACAYURIN, FAUSTINA BOTUYAN, MODESTO SALAZAR, ADORACION BOTUYAN, CLAUDIO GANOTICE and ENONG BOTUYAN, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-29727 | 1988-12-14

D E C I S I O N


FERNAN, J.:

This case exemplifies the Filipino custom of keeping inherited property in a prolonged juridical condition of co-ownership.

Lorenzo Lopez owned Lot 4685 of the Cadastral survey of Villasis, Pangasinan with an area of 69,687 square meters as evidenced by Original Certificate of Title No. 15262. 1 In December, 1931, Lorenzo Lopez died, 2 leaving said property to his wife, Tomasa Ramos and six (6) children. From that time on, the heirs of Lorenzo Lopez did not initiate any moves to legally partition the property.

More than twenty-one years later, or on February 11, 1953, Tomasa Ramos and her eldest son,...