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Jose Geukeko Vs. Hon. Salvador Araneta

JOSE GEUKEKO, petitioner-appellant, vs. HON. SALVADOR ARANETA, Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, etc., respondent-appellee.

G.R. No. L-10182 | 1957-12-24

D E C I S I O N


FELIX, J.:

Jose Geukeko appears to be the registered lessee of Lot No. 18, Block 20 of the Tambobong Estate, with an area of 2,890 square meters, formerly owned by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila, a portion of which he sub-leased to Elena Jacinto, Hilarion Encarnacion, Leonila Rocal, Mercedes Veles, Francisco Caro, Alejandro Morales, Inocencia Lumtao, Adriano Simeon and Onofre Enriquez. When the Republic of the Philippines acquired the Tambobong Estate by purchase in 1947, pursuant to Commonwealth Act No. 539, Jose Geukeko filed an application with the Director of Lands, who was entrusted with sale and...