EMILIANA J. ESGUERRA, SUBSTITUTED BY HER HEIRS, VS. SPOUSES TEOFILO IGNACIO AND JULITA V. IGNACIO, SPOUSES RAUL GIRAY JAPSON AND TEODORA ALIDO JAPSON, AND ASIA CATHAY FINANCE AND LEASING CORPORATION.

Ruling

WHEREFORE , judgment is hereby rendered as follows: The Free Patent awarded to the defendants Spouses Ignacio is hereby ordered annulled and voided; OCT No. P-2142 issued in the name of defendants Spouses Teofilo Ignacio and Julita Ignacio and its derivative titles Nos. 152003 and 152004 (admitted by Julita Ignacio to have been sold/mortgaged but reconveyed to them) and any such derivative titles are declared null and void; Ordering the segregation to the extent of 877 square meters from Lot No. 1788-Cad 345 Pulilan Cadastre adjacent to Lot 1347 rightfully and legally owned by plaintiff and Arturo Eusebio as successor-in-interest on the road right of way; After segregation of 877 square meters, ordering the partition of Lot No. 1788 Cad 345 Pulilan Cadastre into two: One half (1/2) share in favor of the heirs of Regina Panganiban and the other one half (1/2) share of defendants Spouses Ignacio as successors-in-interest of Marciana Reyes; Ordering the defendants Spouses Ignacio to pay plaintiff the sum of P50,000.00 as and by way of Attorney's fees; Ordering defendants Spouses Ignacio to pay the intervenors the sum of P50,000.00 as and by way of Attorney's fees; Ordering defendants Spouses Ignacio to pay costs of suit. All other claims of plaintiff and intervenors as well as the third-party complaint, counterclaims of defendants Spouses to the complaint and complaint in-intervention are all dismissed for lack of legal and factual basis. SO ORDERED.