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Municipality Of Tacurong vs. Rosario Abragan, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees.

THE MUNICIPALITY OF TACURONG, plaintiff-appellant, vs. ROSARIO ABRAGAN, ET AL., defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-25314 | 1968-02-10

D E C I S I O N 


BENGZON, J.P., J.: 

On October 9, 1956, Lot No. 6001, PLS-73, situated in the Municipality of Tacurong, Cotabato and formerly part of the public domain, was declared by Executive Proclamation No. 351, as land reserved for Municipal Site Purposes and withdrawn from sale or resettlement. Portions of said land were then occupied by Rosario Abragan, Ramona Pirales, Teofilo Apilado, Ester Apilado, all for residential purposes, and by the Tacurong Evangelical Church, for religious purposes. 

Years later, on August 29, 1961, the Municipality of Tacurong, through Atty. Estanislao Valdez, Secretary to the Mayor, filed...