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Spouses Gestopa vs Court of Appeals 342 SCRA 105

SPS. AGRIPINO GESTOPA and ISABEL SILARIO GESTOPA, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and MERCEDES DANLAG y PILAPIL, respondents.

G.R. No. 111904 | 2000-10-05

D E C I S I O N

QUISUMBING, J.:

This petition for review,[1] under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court, assails the decision[2]of the Court of Appeals dated August 31, 1993, in CA-G.R. CV No. 38266, which reversed the judgment[3] of the Regional Trial Court of Cebu City, Branch 5.
The facts, as culled from the records, are as follows:

Spouses Diego and Catalina Danlag were the owners of six parcels of unregistered lands. They executed three deeds of donation mortis causa, two of which are dated March 4, 1965 and another dated October 13, 1966, in favor of private respondent Mercedes Danlag-Pilapil.[4] The first deed pertained to parcels 1 & 2...