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Tirso Oporto, Et Al. Vs. Court Of Appeals, Et Al.

TIRSO OPORTO and LYDIA OPORTO, and Hon. Fausto H. Imbing, Judge, Regional Trial Court, Pagadian City, petitioners, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, LEOPOLDO CLARITO and FILOMENA CLARITO, respondents.

G.R. No. 98258 | 1992-05-08

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, C.J.:

Whether or not the Spouses Leopoldo Clarito and Filomena Clarito are agricultural tenants of the Spouses Tirso Oporto and Lydia Oporto is the chief issue in the appellate proceeding at bar.

The Oportos are the owners in fee simple of a piece of land with an area of 114,392 square meters. They acquired the land by purchase sometime in 1965, at the time already registered under the Torrens Act, covered by Original Certificate of Title No. P-17585.

In 1975 the Oportos decided to convert the land into a fishpond. They shopped around for an expert in the aquaculture business to whom they could entrust the...