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Raymundo De La Paz, Et Al. Vs. Domingo D. Panis

RAYMUNDO DE LA PAZ, PLACIDO DE LA PAZ, JOSE DE LA PAZ JR., ILOINA DE LA PAZ, NORITA DE LA PAZ, LEONORA DE LA PAZ, and VICTORIA DE LA PAZ, petitioners, vs. HON. DOMINGO D. PANIS, Presiding Judge, Court of First Instance of Zambales and Olongapo City, Branch III, JOSE RAMIREZ, EUGENIO LAAO, GOMERCINDO BOLANTE, CARLOS BATUNGBAKAL, JACOBO ISIP, BAYANI RAMIREZ, ALFREDO QUILAQUIL, AGUSTIN DEL ROSARIO, ROMAN DE VERA JR., MIGUEL ALFONSO, GREGORIO FELLORIN, RODITO MARABE, ALFREDO PANUGAO, ALFREDO CORONEL JR., DOMINGO BARTOLO, ADRIANO VALDEZ JR., and ALBERTO DE DUZMAN, respondent.

G.R. No. 57023 | 1995-06-22

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

This petition for certiorari and mandamus began in 1972 as a complaint for recovery of possession filed by the petitioners in the then Court of First Instance of Zambales, Branch III, Olongapo City. Docketed as Civil Case No. 1133-0, it involves a dispute over a 7,531-square meter parcel of land in Subic, Zambales, being claimed by the petitioners as communal owners on the strength of their Transfer Certificate of Title No. T-14807 of the Registry of Deeds of Zambales, and by the private respondents as actual possessors.

The petitioners alleged in their complaint that sometime in 1970 or 1971 the private...