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Republic vs. De Los Angeles [SEPARATE OPINION, DISSENTING, TEEHANKEE, J.]

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, MIGUEL TOLENTINO, SR., ZOILA DE CHAVEZ, DEOGRACIAS MERCADO, MARIANO PANTOJA, GUILLERMO MERCADO, AGAPITO REYES, ISIDRO BESAS, LEONA LACHICA, ELENO MACALINDONG, DIONISIO MACALINDONG, DOROTEO SARA, JOAQUIN CAUNCERAN, VIRGILIO AGUILAR, FELIX DUMAN, PIO BACULI, ANTERO APOLINAR, FLAVIANO CURZADO, ROSENDO IBAÑEZ, ARCADIO GONZALES, FELIX BORJA AND BLAS BASCO, petitioners, vs. HON. JAIME DE LOS ANGELES, Judge, Court of First Instance of Batangas, Branch III, Balayan, Batangas; AYALA Y CIA, AND/OR HACIENDA CALATAGAN AND ALFONSO ZOBEL, respondents

G.R. No. L-26112 | 1972-04-11

DISSENTING OPINION  
 
TEEHANKEE, J.: 
 
I 
 
The majority resolution would, as stressed by the Chief Justice, "promote usurpations of the public domain, as well as the simulation of sales thereof by the usurper, by exempting him from responsibility for damages" and violate the settled rules on the finality and conclusiveness of the law of the case and the accepted norms of due process and fair play . 
 
The present majority resolution denies reconsideration of its resolution of October 4, 1971, as sought by petitioner Republic of the Philippines[1] and Tolentino.  It not only...