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Fabiana C. Vda. De Salazar Vs. Court Of Appeals, Et Al.

FABIANA C. VDA. DE SALAZAR, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, PRIMITIVO NEPOMUCENO and EMERENCIANA NEPOMUCENO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-121510 | 1995-11-23

D E C I S I O N


HERMOSISIMA, JR., J.:

Where the defendant in an ejectment case before the rendition by the trial court of its decision therein, does the trial court's failure to effectuate a substitution of heirs before its rendition of judgment render such judgment jurisdictionally infirm?

On July 23, 1970, both private respondents Primitivo Nepomuceno and Emerenciana Nepomuceno filed separate complaints 1 with the then Court of Agrarian Relations of Malolos, Bulacan, for ejectment on the ground of personal cultivation and conversion of land for useful non-agricultural purposes against petitioner's deceased husband, Benjamin Salazar....