Back

Pedro Pilapil, Et Al. Vs. Court Of Appeals, Et Al.

PEDRO PILAPIL and TEODORICA PENARANDA, petitioners, vs. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, Spouses CARMEN OTADORA and LUIS NASIAS, VITALIANA OTADORA, Spouses NACARIO BENSIG and NARCELA ALIGWAY, Spouses DIONISIO BENSIG and JUANITA ARSENAL, Spouses SINFOROSO ANDRIN and VISITACION OTADORA, and H. SERAFICA & SONS CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-55134 | 1995-12-04

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

Felix Otadora was the registered owner of a 273,796-square meter parcel of land in Ormoc City known as Lot 8734 and covered by original Certificate of Title No. 26026. He died in 1940 survived by his wife, Leona Garbo, and their children Vitaliana, Maxima and Agaton. Another son, Sergio, predeceased him. From 1946 to 1947, Leona and the three children sold portions of Lot 8734 to separate buyers, leaving a segregated portion know Lot 8734-B-S with an area of 51,019 square meters. Leona died in 1956.

On March 21, 1962, the Otadora siblings, together with Sergio's son Antonio, executed a deed of extrajudicial...