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Issues: Whether the respondents have a valid and legal right to forcibly eject the petioners?
Held: The SC held that the only issue here is the material possession of a real property .
Granting that the petitioners illegally entered and occupied the property, the respondents
has np right to take the law in their own hands and forcibly eject the occupants therfrom.
Notwithstanding the actual condition of the title, a person in possession cannot be ejected
by force even by the owners. If such illegal manner of ejectment is employed, the party who
proves prior possession, can recover possession even from the owners.
The availment of the aforementioned remedies is the legal alternative to prevent breaches
of peace and criminal disorder from the use of force by claimants out to gain possession.
The SC ruled in favour of the Lauroras