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Daniel A. Betts vs. Eva Matias

DANIEL A. BETTS, petitioner, vs. EVA MATIAS, respondent.

G.R. No. L-45566 | 1980-04-30

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, J.:

The Court reaffirms its recent pronouncement 1 that Presidential Decree No. 20 does not sanction the deprivation of a lessor of residential property in extreme need of the leased premises for his own use of his right to terminate the lease and recover possession of his property. The challenged order dismissing the complaint "for the fixing of a definite limited period of the lease" as being in indirect violation of Presidential Decree No. 20 is thus set aside and the case remanded to the court a quo for further proceedings in consonance with the directives herein made.

The complaint filed on June 1, 1976...