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Francisco Bergado, etal. Vs. Court of Appeals, etal

FRANCISCO, SEVERO, VALENTINA, RUSTICO, DOMINADOR NICOMEDES, all surnamed BERGADO, petitioners, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS (Twelfth Division) and REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. 84051 | 1989-05-19

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

The property subject of this case is claimed by both the petitioners and the Republic of the Philippines under two separate deeds of sale executed by the same vendor. The Republic was sustained by the trial court and the Court of Appeals. 1 The petitioners are now before us, contending that the courts below have erred and so should be reversed.

Disputed are some 5,900 square meters of land forming part of a lot 2 situated in Pangasinan and covered by Original Certificate of Title No. 16545 in the name of Alejandro Trinidad and Aniceta Soriano. It was inherited by Marciana Trinidad, their sole heir. She...