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Siapian vs CA, Alfonso Mariano

ALMARIO SIAPIAN, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, HON. MARCELINO L. SAYO, JR., Presiding Judge, Metropolitan Trial Court, Branch 50, Calookan City; and ALFONSO A. MARIANO, respondents.

G.R. No. 111928 | 2000-03-01

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

This is a petition to review on certiorari the decision of the Court of Appeals dated September 14, 1993 reversing the decision of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in the ejectment case filed by private respondent against petitioner.

The records disclose that the spouses Diosdado Tarlengao and Dominga de la Cruz owned a residential lot located at Tandang Sora Street corner Katipunan, Caloocan City. In July 1947, the late Dominga Siapian leased the said residential lot from the aforenamed spouses and built thereon a two-storey house where her family lived. The lessee religiously paid the agreed monthly...