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Francisco Escano, Jr & Lydia Escano vs CA and Land Bank of the Phils

FRANCISCO H. ESCANO, JR. and LYDIA T. ESCANO, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and LAND BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents

G.R. No. 101932 | 2000-01-24

D E C I S I O N 

QUISUMBING, J.: 

This petition for review on certiorari seeks: (1) to set aside the decision of respondent Court of Appeals in CA G.R. SP 24585, promulgated on July 18, 1991; (2) to set aside its resolution dated September 11, 1991; and (3) to order the Special Agrarian Court of Bohol to continue hearing Civil Case 4644. 

Petitioners owned 63.6226 hectares of agricultural land in Vallehermoso, Carmen, Bohol. They offered 59.6237 hectares of the land to the government through the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) pursuant to E.O. No. 229. DAR twice fixed the value, which petitioners also twice rejected for...