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Justina C. Santos vs. Jesus De Veyra, Et Al.

ESTATE OF JUSTINA SANTOS Y CANON FAUSTINO, represented by the Executor, ANTONIO DE LA FUENTE, petitioner, vs. THE HON. JUDGE JESUS DE VEYRA, Judge of the Court of First Instance of Manila and LUI SHE, respondents.

G.R. No. L-30027 | 1969-07-31

D E C I S I O N 


CASTRO, J.: 

During her lifetime Justina Santos made various contracts in favor of Wong Heng, a Chinaman now deceased, whereby she leased to the latter a large parcel of land on Rizal Avenue in Manila for a period of 99 years and gave him a 50-year option to purchase the property in the event the lessee obtained Philippine citizenship. In Philippine Banking Corporation v. Lui She 1 this Court annulled these contracts as constituting an "insidious patterns" to subvert the Constitutional ban against alien landholding. 

Following our decision in that case, the estate of Justina Santos, the petitioner in this...