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Cipriano Enriquez, et al. vs. Maximo Enriquez.

CIPRIANO ENRIQUEZ, RAYMUNDO ENRIQUEZ, CONCEPCION ENRIQUEZ, ASSISTED BY HER HUSBAND MATIAS QUITANES, TOMAS ENRIQUEZ, LUIS DIAZ, CESAR DIAZ, MANUEL DIAZ, DOMINGO ENRIQUEZ, ELPIDIO ENRIQUEZ, FILIPINA ENRIQUEZ, CASIMIRA DIZON, SATURNINO DIZON, JOSE RAMOS, AMADO MISLANG, ANTONIO QUITANEG, VILLAMOR QUITANEG, JIMMY CLAVO, OSCAR LABORCE, SEVILLA PIZARRO, ANGELITA PIZZARO, ISIDRO RICO, PIO FAMISAN, PANTALEON ABILLE, BEINVENIDO CORUM, MARTINA HISOLE, ERNA D. ENRIQUEZ, ASSISTED BY HER HUSBAND RITCHIE FLAUTA, AND IGNACIO ENRIQUEZ, JR. Petitioners, versus MAXIMO ENRIQUEZ (now deceased), substituted by CARMEN AGANA, IGMIDIO ENRIQUEZ, CONCEPCION ENRIQUEZ, CIPRIANO ENRIQUEZ, DIONISIONENRIQUEZ, MAXIMO ENRIQUEZ, CLEOFE ENRIQUEZ, TOMAS ENRIQUEZ, RAYMUNDO ENRIQUEZ and NICOLAS ENRIQUEZ, Respondents.

G.R. No. 139303 | 2005-08-25

THIRD DIVISION

D E C I S I O N 

SANDOVAL-GUTIERREZ, J.: 

Assailed in the instant petition for review on certiorari are the Resolutions dated February 3, 1999 and July 7, 1999 issued by the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. CV UDK-7011 dismissing the appeal of petitioners for their failure to pay the appellate court docket fee. 

On November 17, 1988, Maximo Enriquez, later substituted by his heirs (now respondents), filed with the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 71 of Iba, Zambales a complaint for partition against petitioners, docketed as Civil Case No. RTC-568-1. The complaint involves a parcel of land situated at Amungan, Iba,...