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FELICIANO GAITERO and NELIA GAITERO, Petitioners, vs. GENEROSO ALMERIA and TERESITA ALMERIA, Respondents.

Feliciano Gaitero and Nelia Gaitero vs. Generoso Almeria and Teresita Almeria

G.R. No. 181812 | 2011-06-08



Republic of the Philippines
SUPREME COURT
Manila


SECOND DIVISION


G.R. No. 181812               June 8, 2011


FELICIANO GAITERO and NELIA GAITERO, Petitioners,

vs.

GENEROSO ALMERIA and TERESITA ALMERIA, Respondents.


D E C I S I O N


ABAD, J.:


Will laches, a rule of equity, benefit one who himself slept on his supposed right?


The Facts and the Case


Following a cadastral survey in Barangay Ysulat, Tobias Fornier, Antique, a land registration court issued an original certificate of title1 to Rosario O. Tomagan (Tomagan) covering a 10,741 square-meter land, designated as Lot 9960.2 Subsequently in 1993, Tomagan subdivided...