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Eugenio De La Cruz vs. CA, et al.

EUGENIO DE LA CRUZ, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS, and CRISTINA MADLANGSAKAY VILLANUEVA, respondents.

G.R. No. 120652 | 1998-02-11

D E C I S I O N

ROMERO, J:

The oft-debated issue of ownership based on acquisitive prescription submits itself before the Court anew, involving a four hundred and seven (407) square meter residential lot located at Barangay San Jose, Bulacan, Bulacan. Petitioner Eugenio De La Cruz claims to be the owner and actual possessor of the lot, having possessed and occupied it openly, publicly, notoriously, adversely against the whole world, and in the concept of an owner, for more than thirty years, 1 at the commencement of this controversy on September 28, 1987. Private respondent Cristina Madlangsakay Villanueva is a purchaser of the same lot...