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Sotenia Gono-Javier vs. Court of Appeals

SOTENIA GONO-JAVIER, TEBURCIO GONO, ANUNCIACION G. JAVIER, GERMANA G. GULAY, LUCIO GONO, RAMON GONO, ALFREDO GONO and MANUEL GONO, petitioners, vs. THE HON. COURT OF APPEALS, RESTITUTA CASOCOT, FERMIN CASOCOT, ALICIA YONSON, ADRIANO CASOCOT, CARLOS MONTE DE RAMOS, REGINA DUGLAS and NONITO MARAVE, respondents.

G.R. No. 111994 | 1994-12-29

THIRD DIVISION

D E C I S I O N 

VITUG, J.: 

Juan Casocot, the alleged natural grandfather of petitioners, was said to have owned during his lifetime five (5) parcels of land in Nasipit, Agusan, covered by Tax Declaration ("T.D.") No. 2667, 3227, 1209, 738 and 2666. 

On 13 February 1978, petitioners filed a case with the Regional Trial Court ("RTC") of Butuan City for the recovery of ownership and possession of the above five (5) parcels which they claimed were merely held in trust for them by private respondents. Petitioners averred that they were the children of deceased Catalino Gono, an acknowledged natural child of Juan...