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Adelfo Maceda vs. Court of Appeals, etal.

ADELFO MACEDA, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS AND CEMENT CENTER, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. 83545 | 1989-08-11

D E C I S I O N


GRIá'O-AQUINO, J.:

The issue raised in this case is the jurisdiction of the metropolitan trail court, in an ejectment case, over the lessee's counterclaim for the value of improvements exceeding the court's jurisdictional limit of P20,000. The Court of Appeals dismissed the counterclaim for lack of jurisdiction, hence, this petition for review by the lessee, Adelfo Maceda.

The leased property originally belonged to the spouses Arturo Victoria and Maxima Monserrat, a maternal aunt of the petitioner. After the spouses emigrated to the U.S. in 1970, they leased their house and lot in San Juan, Metro Manila, to the...