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Ching, Tan vs. Republic of the Phils.

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF TAN CHING TO BE ADMITTED A CITIZEN OF THE PHILIPPINES: TAN CHING, petitioner-appellee, vs. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, oppositor-appellant.

G.R. No. L-33216 | 1983-06-28

D E C I S I O N


ABAD SANTOS, J.:

Tan Ching, a Chinese national, filed a petition for naturalization on September 8, 1959, with the now defunct Court of First Instance of Quezon. The petition was docketed as Naturalization Case No. 74-G.

Hearings on the petition were held wherein an assistant provincial fiscal represented the Solicitor General. In a decision dated December 20, 1960, the court rendered the following judgment:

"PREMISED on the foregoing consideration, the applicant TAN CHING, 35 years of age, married to Lim Liong, merchant and a resident of Catanauan, Quezon, having complied with all the requirements of the...