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Meterio Guzman, etal. Vs. Court of Appeals, etal.

SPOUSES EMETERIO and LOLITA GUZMAN, petitioners, vs. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS and SPOUSES GUILLERMO and GERARDA EVANGELISTA, respondents.

G.R. No. 81949 | 1989-09-15

D E C I S I O N


CORTES, J.:

This is a petition for review on certiorari which seeks the reversal of the decision of the Court of Appeals rendered in CA-G.R. SP No. 13475 setting aside the decisions of the Regional Trial Court and Metropolitan Trial Court, and dismissing the complaint for ejectment filed by petitioners against private respondents.

The facts of the case are as follows:

Since 1937, private respondents have been in possession of a 184 sq. m. parcel of land situated at M. Policarpio Street, Bagong Barrio, Navotas, Metro Manila by virtue of an oral lease agreement with the late Mercedes Policarpio whereby the former agreed...