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Sps. Eligio & Marcelina Mallari vs Ignacio Arcega et al.

SPOUSES ELIGIO P. MALLARI and MARCELINA I. MALLARI, petitioners, vs. IGNACIO ARCEGA, PERCASIO CATACUTAN, BEN GARCIA, ALFREDO DE GUZMAN, MARIETA JACINTO, CELESTINO MAGAT, VICENTE MALLARI, RAFAEL MANALO, LORENZO MANARANG, EMILIO DE MESA, JUAN PANGILINAN, TOROBIA SERRANO, CELESTINA TORNO, and JUANITO VITAL, respondents.

G.R. No. 106615 | 2002-03-20

D E C I S I O N

SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J.:

These consolidated petitions involve a parcel of agricultural land over which the 14 tenants-cultivators (petitioners in G.R. No. 108591 and respondents in G.R. Nos. 106615, 109452, 109978 and 139379) valiantly assert their right of redemption. After more than two (2) decades since the petition for redemption was filed with the trial court, the contending parties are still squabbling for their respective interests in the subject land. It is thus imperative that we write finis to these cases.

The undisputed facts are:

The land in controversy is an agricultural lot planted to sugarcane, described...