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Pascual Mendoza, etal. Vs. Court of Appeals, etal.

PASCUAL MENDOZA and POMPILA VILLEGAS, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and FRANCISCO DE LOS SANTOS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-62089 | 1988-03-09

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

The right to the possession of a parcel of land, title to which had been acquired by Francisco de los Santos from the Land Authority subject to certain conditions, is in this case disputed by the actual occupants thereof. The latter claim right to the land in virtue of having been bona fide occupants thereof for more than forty (40) years. They also claim that the title issued to de los Santos is void because he had violated the conditions under which it had been granted to him.

The property in dispute is a 193-square-meter lot situated in Barrio San Roque, Marikina, Rizal. 1 It had once been part of one of...