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Geronimo De Los Reyes vs. Gregorio Espineli, Et Al

GERONIMO DE LOS REYES, petitioner, vs. GREGORIO ESPINELI, RUPERTO ALCANTARA, JORGE LOBREN, PEDRO AMANTE, MATEO GUTIERREZ, ISIDRO RAMOS, SANTOS DANGUE, MIGUEL RAMOS, CORNELIO GARCIA, MARGARITO BELARMINO, IRENEO BATRALO, SIMPLICIO CASTRO, VICENTE ANIVES, MIGUEL HERNANDEZ, EUGENIO DALISAY, LEON LACSAMANA, and BELEN ALVAREZ, respondents.

G.R. No. L-28280-81 | 1969-11-28

D E C I S I O N 


CASTRO, J.: 

Petition for review of the decision of the Court of Appeals in C.A.-G.R. No. 37689-R and C.A.-G.R. No. 37690-R modifying that of the Court of Agrarian Relations in CAR cases 1185 and 1186. 

The petitioner Geronimo de los Reyes is the owner of a 200-hectare coconut plantation located in Calauan, Laguna. In 1958 his overseer ("katiwala") therein was Gonzalo Belarmino, who took into the land the 17 respondents under an agreement that the latter were to receive 1/7 portion of every coconut harvest. Sometime in October, 1962, the petitioner dismissed Belarmino, upon the suspicion that the latter had...