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Fabian B. S. Abellera Vs. Narciso De Guzman

FABIAN B. S. ABELLERA, plaintiff-appellant, vs. NARCISO DE GUZMAN ET AL., defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-2269 | 1950-03-14

D E C I S I O N


PADILLA, J.:

On 22 March 1918 this Court affirmed a judgment rendered by the court of first instance of La Union dismissing the complaint, by which the plaintiff sought to eject nineteen alleged trespassers or squatters from a tract of land described in the complaint, "on the ground that plaintiff failed to establish title in himself to the hacienda upon which he could maintain an action of ejectment." Plaintiff claimed title to the hacienda by virtue of a donation which he failed to accept in a public instrument as required in article 633 of the Civil Code (Abellera vs. Balanag, 37 Phil., 865). After the dismissal of...