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Celso Amarante, etal. Vs. Court of Appeals, etal.

CELSO AMARANTE HEIRS, NAMELY: FELOMINA, FERNANDA, GENARO, CARMELITA, CRISPIN, CORAZON, ISIDRA, LYDIA, ANTONIO, BIENVENIDO, NATHALIA, DEGUILO, DOMINADOR, ZOSIMA, HUGO and LORNA, all surnamed AMARANTE, BOHEMIA INFIEL, FAUSTA AMARANTE, PETRA AMARANTE, MARCELA VAILOCES, LUCIANO FERRAREN, BIYORA INFIEL and VICENTE MANGABIS, petitioners, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, GREGORIO BOLO, EPIFANIO VILLANUEVA @ PANIYO, MATEA FELIX @ ESTRELLA, SUAREZ FELIX, BUENAVENTURA @ TURA, ANDA FELIX, DIOSDADO FELIX, DIRO FELIX, ANTONIA FELIX, EVANGELISTA FELIX and VICTORIA FELIX, respondents.

G.R. No. 76386 | 1987-10-26

D E C I S I O N


FELICIANO, J.:

On 20 August 1954, petitioners filed a complaint (docketed as Civil Case No. 2967) against respondents for the recovery of a twenty-hectare parcel of unregistered agricultural land (Lot 1236, Pls-667) situated in Sitio Campulay, Barrio Atotes, Bindoy, a remote, mountainous region of Negros Oriental. The complaint was dismissed by the trial court on 31 January 1962 due to the failure of counsel for the petitioners to appear at the scheduled hearing of the case; the dismissal, however, was ordered without prejudice to the refiling of the same complaint.

On 20 December 1962, petitioners refiled their...