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Bacang, Maria Teves Vda. De, et al. Vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

MARIA TEVES VDA. DE BACANG, MILAGROS TEVES VDA. DE ACEBRON, BENITA TEVES VDA. DE CORDOVA, LICERIA MONTESA VDA. DE SANTOS, MENAS CABANAG married to Bede Lasmarias, ANTONIA CABANAG married to Vicente Tugday, ESPERANZA AGUAVIVA VDA. DE CABANAG, BENEDICTO CABANAG JR., minor represented by his Guardian Ad Litem ESPERANZA AGUAVIVA VDA. DE CABANAG, MARIA ANTONIA CABANAG married to Nichol Laxina, MILAGROS CABANAG, ARTURO DIONSON, FRANCISCA PIS-AN VDA. DE MONTESA, MARIA ANTONIETA MONTESA, Minor represented by her Guardian Ad Litem FRANCISCA PIS-AN VDA. DE MONTESA, MARCIANA MONTESA, TEOFILO MONTESA, ALEXANDER MONTESA, JULIETA MONTESA married to Rosendo Chavez, MANUELA MONTESA married to Alejandrino Villanueva, JOAQUIN MONTESA, GASPAR MONTESA, CORNELIA MONTESA married to Herman Gregorio, CANDELARIO MONTESA and FERMIN EMILIANO MONTESA, petitioners, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, NINTH DIVISION, SERAFIN L. TEVES, JOSEFA TEVES married to Ramon Escano, EMILIO TEVES, MILAGROS TEVES married to Johnny Reyes Raymond, PEDRO TEVES, MILAGROS DONIO, MARIA EVELYN TEVES married to Herminio Teves Jr., CATALINO TEVES, PILAR TEVES RAYMOND, MATEO TEVES, MANUEL TEVES, TRINIDAD TEVES married to Manual Sagarbarria, LOURDES TEVES married to Ramon Llanderal, REMEDIOS TEVES, ANTONIO TEVES married to Arsenio Garcia, ROSARIO LONGA VDA. DE TEVES, minors PAULA TEVES, GINA LUCIA TEVES, RAMON JUAN TEVES, JUAN CARLOS TEVES and JUAN TEVES, JR., represented by their Guardian Ad Litem ROSARIO LONGA VDA. DE TEVES, JOSE LUIS TEVES, MARIA BONA TEVES and RAMON TEVES, respondents. Felix S. Magdales for petitioners. Geminiano M. Eleccion for respondents M. Donio Teves and Jose Teves Esca?o. Vicente Jayme for respondent Emilio Teves. Lenin Victoriano for respondent Mateo Teves, et al. Teodorico P. Reyes for Serafin Teves. Pelaez, Jalandoni & Adriano Law Office for respondents.

G.R. No. L-50143 | 1983-10-24

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

The issue in this case is whether a 1975 action to recover the alleged hereditary shares in Hacienda Nuestra Señora del Pilar, Lots Nos. 275 and 276 of the Bais, Negros Oriental cadastre, with an area of 671 hectares, originally belonging to Manuel Abella, who died in 1890, is barred by prescription and res judicata.

Manuel Abella died intestate, survived by two children, named Emilio and Joaquin, begotten with his first wife Enriqueta Teves, and three other children named Manuela, Hermenigildo and Carmen, begotten with his second wife, Leona Teves. All the five children carried the surname Teves....