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Commissioner Of Immigration vs. Juan Go Tieng, Et Al.

THE COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION, petitioner, vs. JUAN GO TIENG and SZE SAU CHIEN, (alias Benita Sy Pa), husband and wife, personally, and in behalf of their minor children GO KIM CHONG and GO SIONG LIM, and THE COURT OF APPEALS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-22581 | 1969-05-21

D E C I S I O N 


MAKALINTAL, J.: 

This is a petition for review by certiorari of the decision of the Court of Appeals vacating the judgment of the Court of First Instance of Manila in its Civil Case No. 47845 (Juan Go Tieng, et al. vs. Emilio L. Galang, etc.) and remanding the same for further proceedings. 

The antecedent facts are set forth in the appealed decision as follows: 

"From the record of the case we gather that on the strength of a falsified certificate of birth, whereby it was made to appear that petitioner Juan Go Tieng was an illegitimate son of one Virginia Tomas, a Filipino citizen, with a certain chinaman...