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Cabacug vs. Lao, et al

NATIVIDAD CABACUG, plaintiff-appellee, vs. PLACIDO LAO and SUPERLA REVELO, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-27036 | 1970-11-26

D E C I S I O N 


FERNANDO, J: 

Plaintiff's statutory right to repurchase two parcels of land obtained through a free patent was sought to be frustrated by defendants raising the extraneous plea that having at one time been the wife of a Chinese national, thereafter deceased, and failing thereafter to regain Philippine citizenship, she was not entitled to recover. She had no choice then but to go to court. She was successful, as the lower court could not very well close its eyes to a stipulation of facts that on its face made quite evident the absence of any legal justification for the refusal of defendants to allow such repurchase....