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Placido Mananlo vs. Intermediate Appellate Court

PLACIDO MANALO and ARMANDO MANALO, petitioners, vs. HON. INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, SPOUSES GEMINIANO DE OCAMPO and AMPARO DE OCAMPO, and SPOUSES PEDRO SANTOS and CRISANTA SANTOS, respondents.

G.R. No. 64753 | 1989-04-26

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

This petition for review by certiorari seeks the reversal of the decision of the respondent Intermediate Appellate Court (now Court of Appeals) which affirmed the cancellation of the petitioners' Free Patents and Original Certificates of Titles (OCTs) and upheld the titles of the private respondents as the true valid and legal titles to the parcels of land in question.

On October 18, 1973, the private respondents instituted an action for the cancellation of the petitioners' titles over certain parcels of land. The respondents prayed that their titles over the said parcels of land be declared as the...