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Eleuterio Lopez, Anatalia Lopez, et al vs CA and Sps Lopez, et al

ELEUTERIO, ANATALIA, JOSELITO, ROGELIO, EVANGELINE, NOEL, GUILLERMO, LORENZO, DOMINGO, AMADO, and VICTORIA, all surnamed LOPEZ, petitioners, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, and spouses MARCELINO and CRISTINA S. LOPEZ, FELISA LOPEZ and RAMON CORTEZ, ZOILO LOPEZ, LEONARDO LOPEZ and LEONILA LOPEZ and spouses ROGELIO M. AMURAO and NOAMI T. AMURAO, respondents.

G.R. No. 127827 | 2003-03-05

D E C I S I O N

PUNO, J.:

Before us is a petition for review on certiorari of the Decision[1] dated September 30, 1996 of the Court of Appeals in C.A.-G.R. CV No. 43837, which affirmed with modification the Decision dated March 30, 1993 of the Regional Trial Court of Antipolo, Rizal, Branch 71, in Civil Case No. 677-A.

The evidence shows that in 1920, Fermin Lopez occupied, possessed, and declared for taxation purposes a parcel of public land containing an area of 19 hectares, 48 ares, 88 centares, more or less, situated in Makatubong, Barrio De la Paz, Antipolo, Rizal. He filed a homestead application over the land, but his application...