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de Chavez vs. Zobel, et al.

BARTOLOME DIMAALA, RUFO GARCIA, PAULINO ESGUERRA, FERNANDO VEROYA, WILSON ZAPATERO, RUFINO ZAPATERO, ALMARIO ALAB, ROMAN BEROYA, and ROMANA VIZCONDE, petitioners, vs. ENRIQUE ZOBEL and COURT OF APPEALS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-28609 | 1974-01-17

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

These two petitions 1 for the review of a joint decision of respondent Court of Appeals, sustaining the right of respondent-landholder, Enrique Zobel to eject petitioner-tenants and thus reversing a judgment in their favor by the Court of Agrarian Relations, present the crucial issue of how far this Tribunal is bound by the cardinal policy set forth in a presidential decree 2 that ordains the emancipation of tenants and confers on them ownership of the lands they till, upheld as part of the law of the land under the Revised Constitution. 3 This too, in the face of its avowed primordial objective: "The State...