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Vega vs. Lopez

CONSTANCIA D. VEGA, petitioner, vs. HONORABLE FERNANDO LOPEZ, in his capacity as the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and ATLAS CONSOLIDATED MINING AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-30504 | 1974-08-29

D E C I S I O N

ESGUERRA, J:

Petition for certiorari under Section 61 of the Mining Law, as amended by R.A. 4388, to review the decision of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources affirming that of the Director of Mines, giving preferential right to respondent Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corporation (protestant in that Mines Administrative Case No. V-262) "to lease the area covered by its twelve (12) mining claims" and, accordingly, giving due course to its Lode Lease Application No. V-2272 covering the said mining claims.

On February 13, 1962, the office of the Bureau of Mines rendered a decision in Mines...