Back

Heirs of Mateo Pidacan etc. vs. Air Transportation Office etc

HEIRS OF MATEO PIDACAN AND ROMANA EIGO‚ Anamely: PACITA PIDACAN VDA. DE ZUBIRI (deceased), survived by JOSE BELLO BATINA, VICKY BELLO BATINA, ROBERTO BELLO BATINA, VILMA BELLO BATINA, and FRANCISCO N. BATINA; and ADELA PIDACAN VDA. DE ROBLES, Petitioners, versus AIR TRANSPORTATION OFFICE (ATO), represented by its Acting Director BIENVENIDO MANGA, Respondent.

G.R. No. 162779 | 2007-06-15

                                              D E C I S I O N


QUISUMBING, J.:


For review on certiorari are the Decision[1] dated August 20, 2003 and the Resolution dated March 17, 2004 of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. CV No. 72404, which reversed the Decision[2] dated February 1, 2001 of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of San Jose, Occidental Mindoro, Branch 46 in Civil Case No. R-800.

The facts, summarized by the Court of Appeals and borne by the records, are as follows:

Sometime in 1935, spouses Mateo Pidacan and Romana Eigo...