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Philippine National Bank vs. Elpidia Devaras

THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL BANK, petitioner, vs. ELPIDIA DEVARAS, represented by her attorney-in-fact, ATTY. LEON T. TUMANDAO, respondent.

G.R. No. L-69269 | 1990-03-14

D E C I S I O N


PARAS, J.:

Elpidia Devaras and Pio Dumaguit were wife and husband respectively. They separated-in-fact after Liberation and Devaras married an American soldier by the name of Robert James Perkins, Jr. on October 6, 1945. They went to live together in America.

Devaras and Dumaguit, during their marriage, acquired a parcel of land situated at Barrio Luneta, La Paz, Leyte, having an area of 160,652 square meters, designated as Lot No. 1233 of the Cadastral Survey, covered by O.C.T. No. N-68. As administrator of the above-described property, Dumaguit sold one-half (1/2) of the said property on May 4, 1958 to Eulagia Aras,...