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Gustilo, Daniel vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

DANIEL GUSTILO, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS AND NOEMI VDA. DE GUSTILO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-61083 | 1983-02-28

D E C I S I O N


ABAD SANTOS, J.:

Private respondent Noemi Vda. de Gustilo, as attorney-in-fact for her two sons, leased to the petitioner Daniel Gustilo two parcels of agricultural land measuring a little over 40 hectares for a period of ten crop years beginning in the crop year 1963-1964 and expiring in the crop year 1972-1973. The stipulated rental was P500.00 per crop year but in 1969 the parties agreed to increase it to P1,000.00 per crop year. In the same year, the two sons sold the lands to their mother which explains why they are not parties in this case.

The contract of lease contains this provision: "(c) That at the expiration...