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Pangan vs Court of Appeals, 166 SCRA 375

ISAAC, SEVERINO, MARIA, TELESFORA, FELISA, SERAPIO, SIMEON and MACARIA, all surnamed PANGAN, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and TEODORA GARCIA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-39299 | 1988-10-18

D E C I S I O N 

CRUZ, J .: 

The property in question is a parcel of land with an area of 635 square meters and situated in San Pascual, Obando, Bulacan. 1 It was originally owned by Leon Hilario and is now being disputed between the herein petitioners, who are his great grandchildren by his daughter Silvestra, and the private respondent, Teodora Garcia, who is his granddaughter by his daughter Catalina. 2 

In 1964, the petitioners filed an application for the registration of the land in their names by virtue of their continuous and exclusive possession thereof since 1895, by themselves and their father and grandfather before...