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RP vs C. A. & Ceferino Paredes, Jr.

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and CEFERINO PAREDES, JR., respondents.

G.R. No. 112115 | 2001-03-09

D E C I S I O N

YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

The instant petition for review seeks to set aside the decision[1] of the Court of Appeals dated September 30, 1993 in CA-G.R. CV No.27990, which reversed the decision[2] of the Regional Trial Court of Prosperidad, Agusan Del Sur, Branch 6, dated May 20,1988 in Civil Case No. 512.

The facts are as follows:

By way of a Deed of Sale dated August 30, 1974, private respondent Ceferino S. Paredes appears to have purchased a 1,200 square meter parcel of land (the subject land) located in San Francisco, Agusan Del Sur, from one Almario Garay. Nearly two years later, or on January 21, 1976, he filed an...