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Apolonio Sumbingco vs. CA, etal.

APOLONIO SUMBINGCO, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, et al., respondents.

G.R. No. L-45114 | 1987-10-26

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

Jepte Demerin, Rogelio Argel, Demetrio Jongco and Alfonso Demerin filed with the Court of Agrarian Relations a complaint against Apolonio Sumbingco, seeking their reinstatement as tenants on the latter's two (2) haciendas and the payment to them of damages for their ouster therefrom. According to them, prior to the purchase by Sumbingco of the haciendas in question from Ricardo Nolan, they were already tenants of the latter, planting the areas occupied by them with rice; that even after Sumbingco acquired the land they continued as tenants thereon by permission of Sumbingco's administrator; that Sumbingco...