Back

RP vs. Lozada

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner-appellee, vs. TEODOCIA LOZADA, applicant-respondent-appellant.

G.R. No. L-43852 | 1979-05-31

D E C I S I O N

TEEHANKEE, J:

The Court affirms on appeal the decision of the Pasay City court of first instance
granting the Republic's timely petition for review of the decree of registration and cancelling the certificate of title issued in favor of the applicant-appellant, since it clearly appears that actual fraud had been employed by the applicant in procuring the title over the lands in question which are part of the public domain (and not private property as falsely claimed by applicant) and the Republic is entitled to their reversion to the public domain.

On October 26, 1966 applicant-appellant Teodocia Lozada had filed an...