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Cunanan vs. Lazatin, Et. Al.

ALEJANDRA CUNANAN, petitioner, vs. FIDELA NUQUI DE LAZATIN and ANTONIO LAZATIN, respondents.

G.R. No. 47053 | 1944-07-31

D E C I S I O N

OZAETA, J:

Commenced as an action to recover lands and rents, this case has developed into one of liquidation of a debt secured by a mortgage. The Court of First Instance of Pampanga, wherein the action was commenced by the respondents, found that, as contended by the petitioner, the real contract between the parties was not one of absolute sale coupled with a lease and an option to repurchase but one of loan secured by a mortgage on the parcels of land purported to have been conveyed; and rendered judgment which, as modified on motion for new trial and reconsideration, was of the following tenor: That the petitioner...