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Dionisia Velasquez vs. Francisco Biala 018 Phil 231

DIONISIA VELASQUEZ, ET AL., plaintiffs-appellees, vs. FRANCISCO BIALA, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-5140 | 1911-01-07

D E C I S I O N


MAPA, J.:

The parties to this suit admit that the land, the recovery of the possession of which the plaintiffs endeavor to obtain, belonged to Jose Velasquez, the latter's father, until the year 1897; that in that year the said Velasquez was married, in second wedlock, to Maria Soratos to whom he gave the said land in dowry by a private document which the plaintiffs signed in proof of their stepmother, Maria Soratos; and, that the latter, after Velasquez' death, sold the land aforementioned, in the year 1904, to the herein defendant who has been in possession thereof ever since, under such a title as owner.

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