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Nicolas G. Sintos Vs. Court Of Appeals, Et Al.

NICOLAS G. SINTOS, petitioner, vs. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, TEOFILO MAGARIN, AGUIDO EBASCO, GUILLERMO CASINILLO, MANUEL CASINILLO, SERGIO CORPUS, SEVERINO MAGARIN, RUFINA MENDOZA, VICTORIA ORILAN and FAUSTA SALIDAGA, respondent.

G.R. No. 96489 | 1995-07-14

D E C I S I O N


QUIASON, J.:

This petition for review on certiorari assails the Decision of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. SP No. 20569, affirming the decision of the Regional Trial Court, Branch 5, Butuan City in Civil Case No. 2716, which awarded disturbance compensation to private respondents.

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Since the early part of 1963 up to middle part of 1983, private respondents had been cultivating, as tenants of petitioner, portions of a parcel of land covered by Tax Declaration No. 26370, with an area of 15.4459 hectares and situated at Villa Kananga, Butuan City. They agreed to pay him one-fourth of their harvest as his share. On March...