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CONRADO QUESADA, ANGELITA QUESADA EJERCITO, HECTOR A. QUESADA, AUGUST QUESADA, ENGRACIA A. QUESADA, AND GAVINA ASUNCION, PETITIONERS, VS. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, HEIRS OF ILDEFONSO DEREQUITO AND AGUSTIN D. DEREQUITO, REPRESENTED BY EUGENIO DEREQUITO AND FOR HIMSELF, RESPONDENTS.

CONRADO QUESADA, ANGELITA QUESADA EJERCITO, HECTOR A. QUESADA, AUGUST QUESADA, ENGRACIA A. QUESADA, AND GAVINA ASUNCION, PETITIONERS, VS. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, HEIRS OF ILDEFONSO DEREQUITO AND AGUSTIN D. DEREQUITO, REPRESENTED BY EUGENIO DEREQUITO AND FOR HIMSELF, RESPONDENTS.

G.R. No. 177516 | 2009-03-13

SECOND DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N
 
CARPIO MORALES, J.:
 
Epitacio Asuncion, predecessor-in-interest of herein petitioners Conrado Quesada, et al., was the owner of Lot No. 225-B (the lot) covered by Original Certificate of Title No. F-24467 of the Register of Deeds of Iloilo and containing about 3.4 hectares.[1] One-and-a-half (1 ½) hectares of the lot were leased to one Claro San Luis (San Luis).

The lot is separated from the land occupied by Querubin Derequito (Querubin), predecessor-in-interest of respondents, by the Balabag River. Querubin converted a portion of the Balabag River into a fish pond and occupied a...