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Aniceto Lorenzo Vs. Jose Navarro

ANICETO LORENZO, plaintiff-appellant, vs. JOSE NAVARRO, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 2021 | 1906-01-05

D E C I S I O N


WILLARD, J.:

The principal question in this case is one of fact. The defendant was in possession of two fisheries. Plaintiff claimed that he was occupying them as his (plaintiff's) tenant, by virtue of a contract of lease made between the defendant and the father of the plaintiff, Cornelio Lorenzo, in 1894. The defendant's claim is that at that time Cornelio Lorenzo was a tenant of an estate of which the parish priest was the administrator; that the tenant was in arrears in regard to the rent; that a contract was then made between him, Cornelio Lorenzo, and the defendant, by the terms of which the defendant agreed to pay...