Back

Eufemia Pajarillo, etal. Vs I.Appellate Court, etal

EUFEMIA PAJARILLO, CLAUDIO SUTERIO, JR., NYMIA SUTERIO and MARILYN SUTERIO, petitioners, vs. INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, THIRD CIVIL CASES DIVISION, SALUD SUTERIO and PEDRO MATIAS, respondents.

G.R. No. 72908 | 1989-08-11

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

This is one of those distasteful litigations involving a controversy among close relatives over properties left by a common ascendant. The petitioners are the widow and children of the brother of the principal private respondent. She and her brother appear to be the only remaining issue of the mother who seems to have caused all the present confusion. The record does not show how close, if at all, the members of this small family were. What is certain is that there is no affection now among the protagonists in this case.

The mother was Juana Balane de Suterio, who had a brother named Felipe Balane and a sister...