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Spouses Roberto and Natividad Valderama vs. Salvacion V. Macalde

SPOUSES ROBERTO AND NATIVIDAD VALDERAMA,[1] Petitioners, versus SALVACION V. MACALDE, for herself and her brothers and sisters, substituted by FLORDELIZA V. MACALDE, Respondents.

G.R. No. 165005 | 2005-09-16

SECOND DIVISION
 
D E C I S I O N 
 
CALLEJO, SR., J.: 
 
Before us is a petition for review on certiorari of the Decision[2] of the Court of Appeals (CA) in CA-G.R. CV No. 48899. 
 
The case stemmed from the following facts: 
 
Years before World War II, the parents of Salvacion V. Macalde rented a lot located at No. 551 Pampanga Street, Tondo, Manila. Their house was constructed on a two-thirds portion of the said property, with an area of 175 square meters. It was in that house that Salvacion was born in 1934. Sometime in 1977, Herminia Albano, who was engaged in the buy-and-sell of PX goods, acquired...