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Marciana Alarcon, Erencio Austria, et al vs CA & Pascua and Santos Inc

MARCIANA ALARCON, ERENCIO AUSTRIA, JUAN BONIFACIO, PETRONILA DELA CRUZ, RUFINA DELA CRUZ, CELESTINO LEGASPI, JOSE MAYONDAG and DAVID SANTOS, petitioners, vs. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS and PASCUAL AND SANTOS, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. 152085 | 2003-07-08

D E C I S I O N

YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

Before us is a petition for review on certiorari seeking to set aside the decision dated September 28, 2001 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 63680,[1] which reversed the decision dated January 10, 2001 of the Department of Agrarian Reform Adjudication Board (DARAB).

The facts are undisputed.

Respondent corporation, Pascual and Santos, Inc., is the owner of several saltbeds with an area of 4.1763 hectares, situated in Barangay San Dionisio, Manuyo, Parañaque. In 1950, it instituted petitioners as tenants of the saltbeds under a fifty-fifty share tenancy agreement.

The harmonious...