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Josefa De La Cruz Vs. Gelasio Capinpin, Et Al. 038 Phil 492

JOSEFA DE LA CRUZ, plaintiff-appellant, vs. GELASIO CAPINPIN and JULIANA ALBEA, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 12712 | 1918-08-21

D E C I S I O N


JOHNSON, J .:

This action was commenced in the Court of First Instance of the Province of Nueva Ecija on the 27th day of January, 1915. Its purpose was to recover of the defendants, as rent for the use and occupation of three parcels of land, 774 cavans of palay. The defendants answered by general and special denial. In their special defense the defendants allege that on the 21st day of May, 1914, they had rented from the plaintiff the said parcels of land. promising to pay for the use and occupation of the same 774 cavanes of palay per year; that said land had been sold under a pacto de retro; that the plaintiff had...