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Mang-oy vs. Court of Appeals

ANITA MANG-OY, assisted by her husband, William Mangoy; LEONORA MIGUEL, assisted by her husband, Miguel Olila; HELENA TAYNAN, and JOSE TUMPAO, petitioners, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS, BANDO TUMPAO, LAMBIA TUMPAO, married to Salming Pirazo, and ABITO TUMPAO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-27421 | 1986-09-12

Republic of the Philippines
SUPREME COURT
Manila
 
FIRST DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N

CRUZ, J:

We are back to the early 1900's in the cool regions of the Mountain Province, setting of many legends of adventure and romance among the highlanders of the North. Our story is not as fanciful, involving as it does not a rivalry for the hand of a beautiful Igorot maiden but a prosaic dispute over a piece of land. Even so, as in those tales of old, the issue shall be decided in favor of the just and deserving albeit according to the dictates not of the heart but of the law.

The hero of this story we shall call Old Man Tumpao although at the time...