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Yumul vs Rivera

VIRGINIA YUMUL, plaintiff-appellant, vs. CAYETANO RIVERA and JULIA RITA DIZON, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. 43243 | 1937-01-26

D E C I S I O N

LAUREL, J:

By this action the plaintiff seeks to compel the defendants to convey to her two parcels of land described in the amended complaint (B. E., p. 36) or, in default thereof, to pay to her the sum of P50,000 in damages for wrongful registration by the defendants of said parcels of land. The plaintiff further prays that the defendants be required to render an accounting of their administration of said lands from the year 1905 to the present.

The defendants answered by a general and special denial and, as special defense, alleged that they were the absolute owners of the parcels of land claimed by the plaintiff,...