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J.A.Gochango, etal vs. Court of Negros Occ.. Etal.

JUAN A. GOCHANGO, HON. FELINO GARCIA, as Presiding Judge of the City Court of Bacolod, Branch I, and DEPUTY PROVINCIAL SHERIFF JOSUE DE JOSE, petitioners, vs. THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, BRANCH IV, SY HO and MILAGROS MINORIA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-49396 | 1988-01-15

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

Application of no more than quite elementary principles governing the modes of acquisition of jurisdiction by a court over the person of a defendant, default, substitution of parties plaintiff, judgment on the pleadings, and execution pending appeal in ejectment cases, is what is chiefly caused for in this appeal by certiorari.

These appellate proceedings had their origin in an action of unlawful detainer filed by C.N. Hodges in the City Court of Bacolod, Branch I, docketed as Civil Case No. 2838. Hodges sought the ejectment from certain parcels of land in Bacolod City titled in his name, of several...