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JAMER Succession
JAMER Succession
Mercado, gr 156407
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FIRST DIVISION
THELMA M. ARANAS, Petitioner,
vs.
TERESITA V. MERCADO, FELIMON V.
MERCADO, CARMENCITA M.
SUTHERLAND, RICHARD V. MERCADO,
MA. TERESITA M. ANDERSON, and
FRANKLIN L. MERCADO, Respondents.
DECISION
BERSAMIN, J.:
Antecedents
SO ORDERED.9
Decision of the CA
II
III
SO ORDERED.
Issue
II
SO ORDERED.
LUCAS P. BERSAMIN
Associate Justice
WE CONCUR
TERESITA J.
MARTIN S.
LEONARDO-DE
VILLARAMA, JR.
CASTRO
Associate Justice
Associate Justice
BIENVENIDO L. REYES
Associate Justice
CERTIFICATION
Footnotes
1
Instead of administratrix, the
gender-fair term administrator
is used.
2
Rollo, p. 118.
3
Id. at 125.
4
Id. at 127-129.
5
Id. at 130.
6
Id. at 134.
7
Id. at 56.
8
Id. at 135.
9
Id. at 140.
10
Id. at 24.
11
Id. at 156.
12
Id. at 25.
13
Id. at 21-34; penned by
Associate Justice Mercedes
Gozo-Dadole (retired), and
concurred by Associate Justice
Salvador J. Valdez, Jr.
(retired/deceased) and
Associate Justice Amelita G.
Tolentino.
14
Rollo, pp. 32-33.
15
Rollo, p. 35.
16
G.R. No. 156358, August 17,
2011, 655 SCRA 553, 566-567.
17
No. L-39532, July 20, 1979, 91
SCRA 540.
18
Id. at 545-546.
19
G.R. No. 128781, August 6,
2002, 386 SCRA 216, 226-227.
20
G.R. No. 75773, April 17, 1990,
184 SCRA 367, 372.
21
Section 1, Rule 41 of the Rules
of Court (as amended under
A.M. No. 07-7-12-SC; effective
December 27, 2007) provides:
Section 1. Subject of
appeal.— An appeal may
be taken from a judgment
or final order that
completely disposes of
the case, or of a particular
matter therein when
declared by these Rules to
be appealable.