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Albert Wright, Jr., Et Al. vs. Lepanto Consolidated Mining Co., Et Al.120 Phil. 495

ALBERT WRIGHT, JR., ET AL., plaintiffs-appellants, vs. LEPANTO CONSOLIDATED MINING CO., and VICTOR LEDNICKY, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-18904 | 1964-07-11

D E C I S I O N 


REYES, J.B.L., J.: 

 Direct appeal to this Supreme Court from a decision of the Court of First Instance of Mt. Province, Baguio City Branch, in its Civil Case No. 905, dismissing, after trial, the complaint for the recovery of possession and ownership of and accounting of ores extracted from two mining claims known as "Copper Placer Mining Claim" and "Lepanto Fraction Mining Claims," which are both situated at Mancayan, Lepanto-Bontoc, Mt. Province. 

 The expediente of the appealed case did not show the value of the properties in controversy; whereupon, on motion of the appellees for the determination...