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Perez vs Mendoza, 65 SCRA 480

BASILIO PEREZ and PETRA MONTALBO, petitioners, vs. NICOLAS MENDOZA, MARGARITA MACALALAD and the HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-22006 | 1975-07-28

D E C I S I O N 

MUNOZ PALMA, J: 

Civil Case 689 of the Court of First Instance of Batangas was an action to quiet title over a piece of land filed on March 20, 1959, by spouses Basilio Perez and Petra Montalbo with spouses Nicolas Mendoza and Margarita Macalalad as defendants. According to the complaint, the land in controversy is located in barrio Dagatan, municipality of Taysan, Batangas, with an area of approximately 4,765 sq. meters, declared for taxation purposes in the name of the "Heirs of Estanislao Montalbo", and is "bounded on the north by a school site on the east by Calixto Flores, on the south by a creek, and on the...