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Sepa Carino Vs. Insular Government

SEPA CARINO, plaintiff-appellee, vs. THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 2540 | 1906-04-16

D E C I S I O N 


WILLARD, J.: 

On the 23d of February, 1904, Sepa Cariño presented a petition to the Court of Land Registration asking that she be inscribed as the owner of a tract of land of 79,227.80 square meters, situated in the Government reservation of Baguio, in the Province of Benguet. The Solicitor-General appeared in the court below and opposed the inscription on the ground that the land described in the petition was public land. The court below ordered the inscription; the Solicitor-General moved for a new trial, which was denied, and he has brought the case here by bill of exceptions. 

The land described in the...