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Julia De La Merced, Et Al. vs. Roman Catholic Archbishop Of Manila, Et Al.

JULIA DE LA MERCED, ET AL., plaintiffs-appellants, vs. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF MANILA, ET AL., defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-24614 | 1967-08-17

D E C I S I O N 


REYES, J.B.L., J.: 

Appeal from an order of the Court of First Instance of Manila (in its Civil Case No. 49768) ordering execution of a judgment based on a compromise approved by the Court. 

The appellants initiated these proceedings in February, 1962, by a complaint in a purportedly representative suit against appellees herein, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila and Manuel Uy & Sons, Inc. They claimed to be representing numerous lessees of a parcel of land in Paco, Manila, belonging to the Archbishop as corporation sole, and known as Lot 3, Block 829 of the Manila cadastre; and alleged that they had...