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Pablo Sta Ana, Jr vs. CA, Cayetano, Manahan

PABLO STA. ANA, JR., petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, ERNESTO P. CAYETANO, LEONOR C. CAYETANO, and ALEJANDRO B. MANAHAN, respondents.

G.R. No. 115284 | 1997-11-13

D E C I S I O N

FRANCISCO, J:

The controversy stemmed from an action for reconveyance filed by herein petitioner Pablo Sta. Ana, Jr. and his now-deceased mother Socorro Sta. Ana against private respondent Ernesto Cayetano, Leonor Cayetano (hereafter spouses Cayetanos) and Alejandro B. Manahan on August 27, 1973, involving a 900 square-meter parcel of land in Barrio San Antonio, Calabanga, Camarines Sur (hereafter subject land).

In the complaint, 1 it was alleged, in a nutshell, that the spouses Cayetanos, without the knowledge of petitioner and his mother, fraudulently included the subject land in the registration proceedings covering...