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Isaac Bagnas, etal. Vs. Court of Appeals, etal.

ISAAC BAGNAS, ENCARNACION BAGNAS, SILVESTRE BAGNAS, MAXIMINA BAGNAS, SIXTO BAGNAS, and AGATONA ENCARNACION, petitioners, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, ROSA L. RETONIL, TEOFILO ENCARNACION, and JOSE B. NAMBAYAN, respondents.

G.R. No. 38498 | 1989-08-10

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

The facts underlying this appeal by certiorari are not in dispute.

Hilario Mateum of Kawit, Cavite, died on March 11, 1964, single, without ascendants or descendants, and survived only by collateral relatives, of whom petitioners herein, his first cousins, were the nearest. Mateum left no will, no debts, and an estate consisting of twenty-nine parcels of land in Kawit and Imus, Cavite, ten of which are involved in this appeal. 1

On April 3, 1964, the private respondents, themselves collateral relatives of Mateum though more remote in degree than the petitioners, 2 registered with the Registry of Deeds for...