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Lahora vs. Emilio Dayanghirang, Jr., et al.

RE: APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF TITLE. SPOUSES FRANCISCO LAHORA and TORIBIA MORALIZON, petitioners-appellants, vs. EMILIO DAYANGHIRANG, JR., and THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS, oppositors-appellees.

G.R. No. L-28565 | 1971-01-30

D E C I S I O N


REYES, J.B.L., J:

The spouses Francisco Lahora and Toribia Moralizon brought the present appeal to this Court from the order of the Court of First Instance of Davao (in Land Reg. Case No. N-86), dismissing their petition with respect to Lot No. 2228 on the ground of previous registration, said appellants claiming that the question of the validity of a certificate of title based on a patent allegedly obtained by fraud can be raised by them in a land registration proceeding, contrary to the ruling of the court a quo.

The records show that on 26 November 1965 herein appellants petitioned the Court of First Instance of...