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Maestrado vs. Court of Appeals and Roa

JOSEFA CH. MAESTRADO, as substituted by her daughter LOURDES MAESTRADO-LAVI?A and CARMEN CH. ABAYA, petitioners, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, Ninth Division and JESUS C. ROA, JR., RAMON P. CHAVES and NATIVIDAD S. SANTOS, respondents.

G.R. No. 133345 | 2000-03-09

D E C I S I O N
 
DE LEON, JR., J.:
 
Before us are two (2) consolidated petitions for review on certiorari of the Decision[1] of the Court of Appeals[2]dated November 28, 1997 declaring Lot No. 5872, located in Kauswagan, Cagayan de Oro City, as common property of the heirs of the deceased spouses, Ramon and Rosario Chaves, and ordering its equal division among all the co-owners. The Court of Appeals affirmed the Decision of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 23 of Cagayan de Oro City, which dismissed petitioners’ action against the private respondents for Quieting of Title over the said lot.

The pertinent facts are the...