Supreme Court decision · Civil Law

Consolacion Verceluz v. Miguel Pelejo

G. R. No. 37353 · Promulgated May 3, 1934

In brief

This case is about the ownership of land, where the court declared the land as the property of the plaintiff, setting aside the lower court's decision.

Appeal, Land Ownership, Costs, Damages

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Full text

[ G. R. No. 37353, May 03, 1934 ]

CONSOLACION VERCELUZ, PLAINTIFF AND APPELLANT, VS. MIGUEL PELEJO, DEFENDANT AND APPELLEE.

D E C I S I O N

J. STEVENS-ACTING CLERK OF COURT

This court having regularly acquired jurisdiction for the trial of the above-entitled cause submitted by both parties for decision,after consideration thereof by the Court upon the record, its decision and order for the judgment having been filed on the ________17th________day of ________April________, A. D. nineteen hundred and _________thirty-four________;

By virtue thereof it is hereby adjudged and decreed that the order of the Court of the First Instance of ___________Tayabas________, dated the __________5th__________ day of __________February____________, nineteen hundred and ___________thirty-two____________, and from which the above-entitled appeal was taken, be, and the same is hereby , set aside and it is declared that the land in question is the property of the plaintiff and appellant, without any pronouncement as to damages, the plaintiff not having presented proof to support the allegation that he suffered damages amounting to P50.00. Costs shall be taxed in both instances against the appellee.

It is further ordered that ____________the appellee____________ recover from the ____________the appellants_____________the sum P__82.00________, as costs.