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Apolinar Dongco, Et Al. Vs. Intermediate Appellate Court, Et Al.

APOLINAR DONGCO (now deceased), as substituted by his two legal heirs: ESTRELLA DONGCO and ILDEFONSO DONGCO; and FELIMON, SINFORIANO, and ISIDRO, all surnamed DONGCO; CERENEA, FELISA, AUREA, MERCED and PILAR, all surnamed DONGCO, and joined by their respective husbands, JULIAN QUI?ONES, OLIMPIO ANITO, LORENZO INSOY, AMADO MAQUIRAN and LAZARO FLORES; and ANDREA SINGCO VDA. DE DONGCO, petitioners, vs. THE INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, THE REGIONAL TRIAL COURT, Branch 17, at Kidapawan, North Cotabato, and the SPOUSES TEODULO JATICO and ANACORETA ABARRIENTOS-JATICO, respondents.

G.R. No. 69894 | 1990-07-19

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

The petitioners' appeal from the adverse of the Intermediate Appellate Court promulgated on July 11, 1984 in AC-G.R. CV No. 00134 1 was, by this Court's Resolution dated January 30, 1985, given "limited due course . . . insofar as the award of damages is concerned." The Appellate Tribunal's decision affirmed, with a slight modification, the judgment of the Court of First Instance of Cotabato in Civil Case No. 193, 2 the dispositive portion of which reads:

"WHEREFORE, and in view of all the foregoing, the Court believes, and so holds, that the Extrajudicial Partition with Power to Sell, Exhibits E and E-1...