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Philippine Supreme Court Jurisprudence > Year 1909 > January 1909 Decisions > G.R. No. 3966 January 19, 1909 - JUAN LEANO I, ET AL. v. AGAPITO LEANO

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PHILIPPINE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

EN BANC

[G.R. No. 3966. January 19, 1909. ]

JUAN LEANO I, EL AT, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AGAPITO LEANO, Defendant-Appellee.

Irineo Javier, for Appellants.

N. Segundo, for Appellee.

SYLLABUS


1. REALTY; RECOVERY OF POSSESSION; PARTIES. — An action for the mere recovery of the possession of real estate can not be maintained against a person who is not in actual or legal possession of the property.


D E C I S I O N


JOHNSON, J. :


This action was brought in the court of First Instance of the Province of Ilocos Norte on the 9th day of December, 1904, for the purpose of recovering from the defendant the possession of a parcel of land situated in the sitio of Cadigacan in the municipality of Radoc, consisting of about 6 hectares, more or less, a more particular description of which is found in paragraph one of the complaint. It was alleged that the defendant had taken unlawful possession of said property and deprived the plaintiffs of the right of possession of the same.

After hearing the evidence adduced during the trial, the lower court made the following statement and conclusion in his decision:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph

"The witnesses for the plaintiff sustain the allegations of the complaint, and those for the defense the allegations of the defendant in such manner that it can not be decided with absolute certainty which is in the right, and in this doubt the court absolves the defendant Agapito Laeno, from the complaint, without costs to either party."cralaw virtua1aw library

From this decision the plaintiffs appealed and made several assignments of error, all of which present questions of fact.

From an examination of the evidence adduced during the trial, the fact appears that on the 13th day of November, 1903, the defendant, Agapito Laeno, sold and delivered to Andres Guerrero whatever right he had in the land in question and that said Guerrero entered into possession of the same and was, by his tenants, in possession of the land at the time the present action was brought. The action to recover the possession of the property was improperly brought against the said Agapito Laeno, and must, therefore, be dismissed. There was no attempt to show that even the plaintiffs had any title in the land in question. The only right which the plaintiffs claimed in the land was the right to its possession.

The defendant, Agapito Laeno, not being in possession of the land at the time the action was brought, the same was improperly brought against him.

For the reasons above stated, the judgment of the lower court is hereby affirmed.

Arellano, C.J., Torres, Mapa, Carson, Willard and Tracey, JJ., concur.




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