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Benito Quinsay Vs. Intermediate Appellate Court

BENITO QUINSAY, MELITON CABERTO and PASTOR OLALAN, petitioners, vs. THE INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, FOURTH CIVIL CASES DIVISION, and URBANA GUY YOCHE, LETICIA GUY YOCHE, ANITA GUY YOCHE, ADELA GUY YOCHE, BEATRIZ GUY YOCHE, VIVENCIO GUY YOCHE, NOLASCO GUY YOCHE (deceased), substituted by his legal heirs URSULA ENRIQUEZ, NERISSA, NOEL and NOEMI, all surnamed GUY YOCHE, respondents. Basilio P. Rupisan for petitioners. Teofilo A. Leonin for private respondents.

G.R. No. 67935 | 1991-03-18

D E C I S I O N


REGALADO, J.:

In a verified complaint dated January 27, 1975, herein private respondents filed Civil Case No. Br. V-216 in the former Court of First Instance of Isabela for annulment of patent, reconveyance and damages against herein petitioners Benito Quinsay, Meliton Caberto and Pastor Olalan, and impleading therein the Director of Lands as a co-defendant of the said petitioners. 1

We quote the antecedents which spawned the present controversy, as found by the trial court and thoroughly narrated in its decision of December 13, 1980: 2

"The facts of the case are undisputed. Lot No. 1105, Cad. 211, situated at...