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MANUEL JUSAYAN,ALFREDO JUSAYAN, AND MICHAEL JUSAYAN, PETITIONERS, VS. JORGE SOMBILLA, RESPONDENT.

MANUEL JUSAYAN,ALFREDO JUSAYAN, AND MICHAEL JUSAYAN, PETITIONERS, VS. JORGE SOMBILLA, RESPONDENT.

G.R. No. 163928 | 2015-01-21

FIRST DIVISION

D E C I S I O N

BERSAMIN, J.:

The Court resolves whether a lease of agricultural land between the respondent and the predecessor of the petitioners was a civil law lease or an agricultural lease. The resolution is determinative of whether or not the Regional Trial Court (RTC) had original exclusive jurisdiction over the action commenced by the predecessor of the petitioners against the respondent.

The Case
 
Under review on certiorari is the decision promulgated on October 20, 2003,1 whereby the Court of Appeals (CA) reversed the judgment in favor of the petitioners rendered on April 13, 1999 in CAR Case No. 17117...