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Roberto Vallarta, etal vs. I. A. Court, et al.

ROBERTO VALLARTA, CESAR VALLARTA, ANTONIO MANANSALA, JR., ARMANDO GARCIA and ABELARDO LOPEZ, petitioners, vs. HON. INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, HON. LORENZO B. VENERACION, in his capacity as Judge presiding over Branch LIV, Regional Trial Court of Macabebe, Pampanga; MARCELINO MARCOS; ROBERTO CUNANAN; VICENTE GONZALES; RODOLFO GUEVARRA; FILEMON SINGSON; ANDRES BALINGIT; DIONISIO CATAMAN; MANUEL MANGAHAS; RODOLFO CANILAO; ATO GADDI; RICARDO (surname unknown) alias "Carding", JUAN (surname unknown) of Sapang Kawayan and TRANQUILINO ARROYO, respondents.

G.R. No. 74957 | 1987-06-30

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

This case commenced as a complaint for forcible entry filed with the Municipal Circuit Trial Court of Macabebe and Masantol, Pampanga against respondent Marcelino Marcos and his group who allegedly entered the disputed fishponds through threat and intimidation on June 22, 1981 and threw the petitioners out of the premises.

The defendants, now respondents, alleged their prior possession of the fishponds and claimed that the petitioners were the ones who attempted to dispossess them from the property. Meanwhile, respondent Tranquilino Arroyo, intervened in the ejectment case alleging that he was the...