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Go, et al. vs. Intermediate Appellate Court, et al.

VICTORIA C. GO and EPIFANIO GO, petitioners, vs. HONORABLE INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT (FIRST CIVIL CASES DIVISION), SPOUSES EUGENIO DE VERA and ELENA HERMOSA, respondents.

G.R. No. 73707 | 1990-03-12

D E C I S I O N


FERNAN, J.:

This is a petition for review of the then Intermediate Appellate Court's decision dated July 18, 1985 which reversed that of the trial court and ordered petitioners Victoria Go and Epifanio Go to allow the repurchase by private respondents Eugenio de Vera and Elena Hermosa of the disputed homestead.

The subject homestead is a farmlot with an area of 59,644 square meters located in the sitio of Labo, Katangawan, General Santos City, Cotabato. It was awarded to private respondent Eugenio de Vera on February 3, 1961 by virtue of Free Patent No. 159589, on which basis Original Certificate of Title No. V-14126 was...