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Moises Bentulan vs Aurelia Bentulan-Mercado, et al.

MOISES BENTULAN, REPRESENTED BY HIS HEIRS, NAMELY, HIS WIDOW LETICIA BULAN-BENTULAN AND CHILDREN MARIA LUISA BENTULAN AND MARIANNE BENTULAN, Petitioners, versus AURELIA BENTULAN-MERCADO AND THE HEIRS OF CONCHITA BENTULAN-SALINAS, NAMELY, LUISA* SALINAS-FERNANDEZ, MARILYN, JAIME, MANOLITO, ALL SURNAMED SALINAS, AND THE COURT OF APPEALS,** Respondents.

G.R. NO. 138906 | 2004-12-13

D E C I S I O N


CHICO-NAZARIO, J.: 


This is a petition for review on certiorari of the Court of Appeals' Decision[1] dated 30 March 1999 and its Resolution dated 31 May 1999, affirming the Decision dated 02 October 1995 of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) at Pasay City, Branch 112, in Civil Case No. 9441-P entitled, "Aurelia B. Mercado, et al. v. Moises Bentulan."

The facts, as established by the Court of Appeals, are as follows:

The spouses Florentino Bentulan and Librada Salinas were the owners of a parcel of land measuring 198.4 square meters with a 2-storey house erected thereon, situated at No. 186 Primero de Mayo Street, Pasay...