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De Tangub vs. Court of Appeals

RUFINA VDA. DE TANGUB, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, PRESIDING JUDGE of the [CAR] RTC, Branch 4, Iligan City, and SPOUSES DOMINGO and EUGENIA MARTIL, respondents.

UDK No. 9864 | 1990-12-03

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

The jurisdiction of the Regional Trial Court, acting as a special agrarian court, in the light of Executive Orders Numbered 129-A and 229 and Republic Act No. 6657, is what is at issue in the proceeding at bar.

Rufina Tangub and her husband, Andres, now deceased, filed with the Regional Trial Court of Lanao del Norte in March, 1988, "an agrarian case for damages by reason of the(ir) unlawful dispossession . . .was tenants from the landholding" owned by the Spouses Domingo and Eugenia Martil. 1 Several persons were also impleaded as defendants, including the Philippine National Bank, it being alleged by...