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Hugo Adoptante vs Ca and PEOPLE

HUGO ADOPTANTE, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondent.

G.R. No. 136768 | 2002-12-17

D E C I S I O N

YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

This is a petition[1] for review assailing the decision[2] dated May 15, 1998 of the Court of Appeals, which affirmed the orders[3] of the Regional Trial Court of Nasugbu Batangas, Branch 14, in Civil Case No. 191, citing petitioner Hugo Adoptante in contempt of court.

It appears from the records that Felisa Abellera was the owner of a parcel of agricultural land with an area of 11,532 square meters, situated at Sitio Calumpit, Barangay Prenza, Lian, Batangas. Sometime in 1971, Abellera leased to petitioner Hugo Adoptante the one-half southern portion of the land for sugarcane production under...