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Lecar & Sons, Inc. vs. Tanco, Jr., etch., et al. [STATEMENT OF CASE, CASTRO, J.]

LECAR & SONS, INC., vs. HON. ARTURO R. TANCO, JR., ETC. ET AL.

G.R. No. L-33818 | 1973-09-26

STATEMENT OF CASE
 
CASTRO, J.:
 
In 1968 Lecar & Sons, Inc. (LECAR) filed with the Office of the Mining Recorder of Palawan forty-eight (48) placer claims for nickel and other allied materials to be found in Ipilan, barrio Mambalut, Brooke's Point, Palawan. LECAR subsequently applied for a lease survey of its 48 placer claims with the Bureau of Mines. The Bureau of Mines refused to give due course to the lease survey of 13 of LECAR's placer claims after it found the said claims in conflict with the lode claims of Silvestre Gochuico, Sakop Mining Association and Benedicto Tablante. LECAR then filed a protest with the...