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Bonifacio Lopez vs. Court of Appeals

BONIFACIO LOPEZ, substituted by ROBERTA LLANERAS, VIRGINIA LOPEZ BONIFACIO LOPEZ, JR. and FERNANDO LOPEZ, petitioners, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, PEDRO PINOHERMOSO, substituted by JUANA P. REMOLANA, CEFERINA PINOHERMOSO, TERESITA PINOHERMOSO, LURESITA PINOHERMOSO, ANACITO PINOHERMOSO, NIEVES PINOHERMOSO, AQUILINO PINOHERMOSO, MELANIO PADRELAN, LYDIA PADRELAN, JULIANA PADRELAN, ELISA PADRELAN, NENA PADRELAN, MANUEL PADRELAN, ROSARIO PADRELAN, ROSITA PADRELAN and AMADO PADRELAN, respondents.

G.R. No. 49739 | 1989-01-20

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeals which affirmed the decision of the then Court of First Instance of Quezon, Branch III, requiring the petitioners to restore to the respondents "the share of their grandmother in the old homestead, the ancestral home of the Pinohermosos, which should be preserved in the family and not devoted to speculative purposes" and ordering that "Transfer Certificate of Title No. 15186 (should) be amended accordingly." (p. 27, Rollo)

The assailed decision of the Court of Appeals has the following findings of facts:

"The deceased spouses Tiburcio...