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Valle-Tiongson vs. Fernandez

CECILIA DEL VALLE-TIONGSON, ET AL., plaintiffs-appellees, vs. MELECIO FERNANDEZ, defendant-appellant, ENRIQUE MATIBAG, ET AL., intervenors-appellants.

G.R. No. L-26403 | 1970-10-20

D E C I S I O N 


REYES, J.B.L., Acting C.J: 

Appeal from a decision of the Court of First Instance of Quezon Province in its Civil Case No. 5799, rendered in 22 April 1966, resolving a conflict between the parties about rights to use the waters of the Taguan River and the Noynoyin Creek in Tiaong and Candelaria of the Province of Quezon. 

For the proper understanding of the controversy, it is important to recall the general topography of the region. As shown in the defendants-appellants' sketch plan, Exhibit "10," which was admitted and adopted by plaintiffs-appellees (t.s.n., page 879), the main source of the water for the...