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Consolacion Villanueva Vs. Intermediate Appellate Court, Et Al.

CONSOLACION VILLANUEVA, petitioner, vs. THE INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, JESUS BERNAS and REMEDIOS Q. BERNAS, respondents.

G.R. No. 74577 | 1990-12-04

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

The spouses Graciano Aranas and Nicolasa Bunsa were the owners in fee simple of a parcel of land identified as Lot 13, their ownership being evidenced by Original Certificate of Title No. 0-3239 issued by the Register of Deeds of Capiz on June 19, 1924. After they died, their surviving children, Modesto Aranas and Federico Aranas, adjudicated the land to themselves under a deed of extrajudicial partition executed on May 2, 1952. The southern portion, described as Lot 13-C, was thereby assigned to Modesto; the northern, to Federico. 1

On March 21, 1953, Modesto Aranas obtained a Torrens title in his name...