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VILLACASTIN vs PELAEZ - MCTC AND RTCS DECISIONS WERE

SET ASIDE.
*Conflict of jurisdiction between the DARAB
and the regular courts. - COMPLAINT FOR FORCIBLE ENTRY
WAS DISMISSED.
- Sps. Pelaez mortgaged their agri lands to
DBP. - CA DENIED THE MR.
- Sps. Failed to pay; properties were - Petitioners argued that the case did not
foreclosed and sold at public auction. involve any agrarian matter, thus, MCTC has
jurisdiction to hear and decide the case.
- An action to annul the mortgage,
foreclosure and sale of the subject properties - Respondent argued that the lands in
was filed by the tenants of the property question are tenanted agri lands which falls
(claiming owners of the property under PD under the DARABs jurisdiction.
27).
- When DARAB declared the foreclosure and
- A complaint for Forcible Entry with Prayer the public sale of the subject property null
for a Writ of Prelim Mandatory Injunction and void, petitioners complaint for forcible
against respondent and Elesio Monteseven entry had lost its legal basis.
was filed by petitioners claiming that they
- Petitioners maintained that the tenants
are the owners and actual possessors of the
were not parties to the forcible entry case.
subject landholding; that they were
unlawfully deprived of possession thereof by - Respondent raised the defense of
defendants who entered the property ownership.
through stealth and strategy.
- JURISDICTION OVER THE SUBJECT MATTER
- Pelaez countered that the foreclosed IS DETERMINED BY THE ALLEGATIONS OF
property was owned by him; that petitioners THE COMPLAINT.
acquired said property when it was sold by
DBP through public auction; that petitioners - Allegations in the complaint clothed the
failed to apply for writ of possession; that he MCTC with jurisdiction to hear and decide the
redeemed the property on March 3, 1988 and present case.
reacquired possession of the same. - No landowner-tenant was alleged between
- PROVINCIAL AGRARIAN REFORM the parties.
ADJUDICATOR (CEBU) RULED IN FAVOR OF (DARAB jurisdiction for the determination and
THE TENANTS. adjudication all agrarian disputes.)
- DARAB AFFIRMED SAID DECISION. REGULAR COURTS HAVE JURISDICTION OVER
- MCTC RULED IN FAVOR OF PETITIONERS POSSESSORY ACTIONS INVOLVING PUBLIC OR
(VILLACASTIN). PRIVATE AGRI LANDS TO DETERMINE THE
ISSUE OF PHYSICAL POSSESSION.
- RTC CEBU AFFIRMED MCTCS DECISION.
- CA RULED THAT PRIMARY JURISDICTION OF
DARAB OVER CASES INVOLVING
AGRICULTURAL LANDS SHOULD BE
RESPECTED BY REGULAR COURTS.

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