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Luzon Surety Company, Inc., vs. Mirasol, Jr.

IN RE: PETITION FOR CANCELLATION OF RECONSTITUTED TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. RT-13661 (N.A.) AND NEW TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T-50056; FOR RECONSTITUTION OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. 4837, ALL OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF NEGROS OCC

G.R. No. L-29313 | 1977-01-21

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

This case involves the jurisdiction of the Court of First Instance, sitting as a land registration court, to resolve a petition to cancel a fraudulently reconstituted title.
On December 9, 1967 the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental, Bacolod City branch, issued an order directing the register of deeds to reconstitute the original and owner's duplicate of an unnumbered transfer certificate of title covering Lot No. 133 of the Binalbagan cadastre.

That order was issued on the basis of the ex parte verified petition of Roman Mirasol, Jr. who claimed to he the purchaser of Lot No. 133. He filed the...