Supreme Court decision · Civil Law

Salem v. Rodriguez

G. R. No. 37589 · Promulgated May 12, 1934

In brief

This case is about the plaintiffs being adjudged absolute owners of a portion of land unlawfully detained by the defendants.

Land Ownership, Appeal, Court of First Instance, Property Dispute, Absolute Ownership

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Full text

[ G. R. No. 37589, May 12, 1934 ]

MARCELA SALEM ET AL., PLAINTIFFS AND APPELLEES, VS. FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ ET AL., DEFENDANTS AND APPELLANTS.

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 ________26th________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 ___________Dipolog (Zamboanga)________, dated the __________26th__________ day of __________January____________, nineteen hundred and ___________thirty-one____________, and from which the above-entitled appeal was taken, be, and the same is hereby , modified and the plaintiffs are adjudged the absolute owners of the portion of land unlawfully detained by the defendants, as described in paragraph 4 of the complaint, without damages and without damages an without cost in either instance.

It is further ordered that __xx___________xx___________xx__ recover from __xx___________xx___________xx__ the sum of P __xx__, as cost.