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Rivera vs. Florendo

FELISA RIVERA and GODOFREDO RIVERA, petitioners, vs. HON. ALFREDO C. FLORENDO Presiding Judge, Court, of First Instance of Manila, Branch XXXVI, and PACIFICO AQUINO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-60066 | 1986-07-31

D E C I S I O N


FERNAN, J:

The sole legal issue involved in this petition for review is whether or not the period of the verbal lease agreement between petitioners and private respondent has expired within the meaning of Section 5(c) of Batas Pambansa Bilang 25. 1 In the light of our pronouncement in Baens vs. Court of Appeals, 125 SCRA 634, We rule in the affirmative.

Petitioners-spouses Felisa and Godofredo Rivera were the owners of apartment units bearing numbers 2034, 2036 and 2038 on Quirino Avenue, Pandacan, Manila. Sometime in 1965, private respondent Pacifico Aquino started occupying the apartment unit designated as No. 2034...