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Rosita Domingo vs CA, et al.

ROSITA DOMINGO, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and ARANETA INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE, respondents.

G.R. No. 102360 | 1996-03-20

KAPUNAN, J.:


The instant case illustrates a long drawn-out litigation between parties who already entered into a compromise agreement some thirty-five (35) years ago and which agreement was given judicial imprimatur. One of them, up to now, still refuses to be bound by the said judicial compromise.

Petitioner Rosita Domingo was one of the bona fide tenants-occupants of an eighty-seven (87) hectare land located at Barrio Baesa, Caloocan City then known as the Gonzales Estate.

Upon petition of the tenants sometime in 1947, the Republic of the Philippines through the Rural Progress Administration (RPA) instituted an action which was...