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Sergio De Guzman Vs. Anastacio De Guzman, Et Al. 104 Phil 24

SERGIO DE GUZMAN, petitioner-appellant, vs. ANASTACIO DE GUZMAN, THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS and THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-11627 | 1958-06-25

D E C I S I O N


FELIX, J.:

This is an appeal by certiorari filed by Sergio de Guzman seeking to nullify the order of the Court of the First Instance of Zamboanga del Sur dismissing the petition in Special Civil Case No. 126 of that Court. The facts of the case are as follows:

In 1941, Sergio de Guzman appears to have applied for a homestead patent over Lot No. 763, Pls-119, in Pagadian, Zamboanga, containing an area of 6 hectares. As said application was not acted upon in view of the advent of the Second World War, the Bureau of Lands required him in 1947 to file another application over the same parcel of land, which application was...