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Eugenia C. Llaban Vs. Court Of Appeals

EUGENIA LLABAN y CATALAN, LUCIA BARBANERA JURBAN, MARTIN LLABAN BEATRIZ BARBANERA JURBAN, LUIS LLABAN NACUA, SERGIO LLABAN NACUA, MANUEL LLABAN NACUA, EULALIA LLABAN ABELLA, EPIFANIO LLABAN NACUA, LUCRECIA LLABAN ABELLA, JOSEFINA JABAN FORNOLLES, MARIA SOCORRO JABAN CARUBIO, LOURDES JABAN VERGARA, BIENVENIDO P. JABAN, JOSE JABAN, CARMEN INTUD, FILOMENO JABAN, LUCIA JABAN OLAES, ROQUE JABAN and GENEROSO JABAN, petitioners, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS, now known as the Intermediate Appellate Court, HON. JOSE RAMOLETE, Judge of the Court of First Instance Cebu, Branch III, JOSE G. PAULIN, CEFERINO GABUTAN, SERAPIO ALCOSEBA, APOLONIA CAVAN, CIRLACO BACATAN, TRINIDAD LIM, GERARDO PANONGALINOG, and FILEMON SOTTO, respondents. Bienvenido P. Jaban for petitioners. Paul G. Gorres for private respondents.

G.R. No. 63226 | 1991-12-20

D E C I S I O N


DAVIDE, JR., J.:

Principally involved in this petition for review on certiorari under Rule 45 of the Rules of Court is the jurisdiction of the then Court of First Instance (now Regional Trial Court) of Cebu, sitting as a cadastral court, to modify or amend a 1916 decision in a cadastral case by directing the issuance of a final decree in the names of parties who are not the original adjudicates of a cadastral lot.

From the pleadings of the parties, the following facts are not controverted:

In a decision rendered on 13 September 1916 in Cadastral Case No. 12 (LRC Rec. No. 9468), the then Court of First Instance of Cebu...