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Modesta Quijano, Et Al. Vs. Eugenio Gomez Cabale 049 Phil 263

MODESTA QUIJANO, as guardian of her son Amado Francia, and THE HEIRS OF JOSEFA FRANCIA, plaintiffs-appellees, vs. EUGENIO GOMEZ CABALE, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 25558 | 1926-08-25

D E C I S I O N


OSTRAND, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of the Province of Laguna, declaring the plaintiff's owners of a parcel of land situated in the municipality of Magdalena of said province, and ordering the defendant-appellant to deliver possession thereof to said plaintiffs. The appellant maintains that he acquired title to the land through purchase from one Isabela Macaraya and her son-in-law Lorenzo Abordo, who in turn had purchased the land from the plaintiff's ancestor Juana Acejo. In his answer he also pleaded the statute of limitations and alleged that he had been in the actual, open,...