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Macario Yu vs. Rp.

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF MACARIO YU TO BE ADMITTED A CITIZEN OF THE PHILIPPINES, MACARIO YU, petitioner-appellant, vs. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, oppositor-appellee.

G.R. No. L-29580 | 1972-04-27

D E C I S I O N


REYES, J.B.L., J:

Appeal from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Cebu, in its Naturalization Case No. 816, denying the application for Philippine citizenship of petitioner-appellant Macario Yu, on the grounds that his vouching witnesses do not meet the conditions essential to be "credible persons", as the term is used in Section 7 of the Naturalization Law; that the filing of the petition in the court a quo (Cebu) was resorted to by the petitioner to avoid opposition of a certain group of persons in Misamis Oriental where he had previously filed and later withdrawn a similar petition for naturalization; that...