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Conrado B. Uichanco Vs. Secretary Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, Et Al.117 Phil. 555

CONRADO B. UICHANCO, petitioner-appellee, vs. THE HONORABLE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES, ET AL., respondents-appellants.

G.R. No. L-17328 | 1963-03-30

D E C I S I O N 


REGALA, J.: 

This appeal from a decision of the Court of First Instance of Manila was certified to Us by the Court of Appeals on the ground that the question involved is one of law. 

It appears that Conrado P. Uichanco filed sales application No. 21922 (E. V-572) with the Bureau of Lands for the purchase of a parcel of public land situated in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro. The application was protested by Vivencio Dueñas and Pablo Yasona, as a result of which the Director of Lands conducted an investigation and later on rendered a decision, dated November 22, 1955, cancelling Uichanco's application and declaring...