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Sps. Romeo LL. Plopenio and Rosielinda Plopenio, etc. Vs. Department of Agrarian Reform, et al./Eduardo LL. Plopenio, etc. Vs. Department of Agrarian Reform, et al.

SPOUSES ROMEO LL. PLOPENIO and ROSIELINDA PLOPENIO represented by GAVINO PLOPENIO, Petitioners, vs. DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM and LAND BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES, Respondents. / EDUARDO LL. PLOPENIO represented by GAVINO PLOPENIO, Petitioner, vs. DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM and LAND BANK OF THE PHILIPPINES, Respondents.

G.R. No. 161090 and G.R. No. 161092 | 2012-07-04

SECOND DIVISION


D E C I S I O N

SERENO, J.:


In these consolidated Rule 45 Petitions, we rule on the proper mode of appeal from the decision of a Regional Trial Court (RTC) designated as a Special Agrarian Court (SAC).

In G.R. No. 161090, petitioner-spouses Romeo Ll. Plopenio and Rosielinda Plopenio assail the Decision1 and Order2 of the SAC-RTC Branch 23, Naga City, in Civil Case No. 2003-007.

In G.R. No. 161092, petitioner Eduardo Ll. Plopenio (Eduardo) questions the Decision3 and Order4 of the same court in Civil Case No. 2003-004.


THE FACTS

Petitioner-spouses own 11.8643 hectares of coconut land in Caramoan, Camarines...