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Vda. De Mapa vs. Court of Appeals

PAZ GARCIA vda. de MAPA, * SEGUNDO MAPA, PRISCILLA M. MONZON, TERESA MAPA, IGNACIO SALAZAR AND JOSE SALAZAR, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, LUIS HIDROSOLLO and TEODORO HIDROSOLLO, in their own behalf and as Joint Administrators of the testate estate of Ludovico Hidrosollo, and VICTORIA ** HIDROSOLLO, CORAZON HIDROSOLLO, ROSARIO HIDROSOLLO and MAGDALENA HIDROSOLLO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-38972 | 1987-09-28

Republic of the Philippines
SUPREME COURT
Manila
 
THIRD DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N
 
FERNAN, J:

This is a petition for review on certiorari of the decision of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. No. 40448-R entitled "Paz Garcia Vda. de Mapa, et al. vs. Luis Hidrosollo, et al." reversing the decision of the then Court of First Instance of Manila in Civil Case No. 59566, bearing the same title.

The antecedent facts of the case are as follows:

On January 16, 1965, petitioners Paz Garcia Vda. de Mapa, et al. instituted Civil Case No. 59566 before the then Court of First Instance of Manila to recover from the estate of the late...