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Arsenio Escudero, Et Al. Vs. Gertrudo Flores, Et Al.

ARSENIO ESCUDERO, ET AL., plaintiffs-appellants, vs. GERTRUDO FLORES, ET AL., defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-7401 | 1955-06-25

D E C I S I O N


BENGZON, J.:

Res judicata is the central point in this expediente.

Under review is the order of Hon. Nicasio Yatco, Judge of the Laguna court of first instance dismissing plaintiffs' complaint that sought to annul the judgment previously rendered in Civil Case No. 9296 of the same court, and thereby to obtain the return of the land and money they had been required to deliver pursuant thereto.

Plaintiffs - the Escuderos - were defendants in civil case No. 9296 sued by the herein defendants, the Flores heirs. The roles are now reversed, because after the latter had won by said previous judgment, the present plaintiffs -...