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[3/3] RP, et al. Vs. CA, et al.

[3/3] REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES and CITY OF CAGAYAN DE ORO, petitioners, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS, BENEDICTA MACABALE SALCEDO, ISIDRO S. BACULIO, EMMANUEL AKUT, IRENEO ORLINO, LUCY P. GASTON, ROSARIO JAVIER, HONESTO N. SALCEDO, RUPERTA AGUILOR, GORGONIA BRIONES, FRANCISCO Q. BELTRAN, ERIBERTO CAMBA, GENOVEVA C. SAN JUAN, FEDERICO P. PICAR, EUGENIA GARCIA, THE LAND REGISTRATION COMMISSION, and THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF MISAMIS ORIENTAL, respondents. / PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS, ISIDRO S. BACULIO and JOSEFINA W. BACARRISAS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-41115 | 1982-09-11

FIFTH ASSIGNMENT OF ERROR

"The respondent Court erred in declaring Lot No. 1982 of the Cagayan de Oro Cadastre originally classified as forestal land as private property of Benedicta Macabale Salcedo Vda. de Baculio, on the basis of self-serving testimonies of the defendants-appellants Macabale, et al. instead of confirming its character as a declared public land."

In support of this assignment of error, petitioners contend that prior to the institution of the action in Cadastral Case No. 18, GLRO Rec. No. 1562, before the Court of First Instance of Misamis Oriental, Lot No. 1982 was an integral part of timberland known and identified as...