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Hilario Ramirez vs. Court of Appeals

HILARIO RAMIREZ and VALENTINA BONIFACIO, petitioners, vs. HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, FRANCISCA MEDINA, MATILDE MARTIN, EMILIO MARTIN, DELFIN GUINTO, TEOFILO GUINTO, PRUDENCIO GUINTO and MARGARITA GUINTO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-38185 | 1986-09-24

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J:

This is an appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeals which affirmed in toto the decision of the then Court of First Instance of Rizal rendered in the petition for review of the decree of registration issued in Land Registration Case No. N-2597, L.R.C. Record No. N-17939.

On September 15, 1959, petitioners-spouses Hilario Ramirez and Valentina Bonifacio filed an application for registration of a parcel of riceland in Pamplona, Las Piñas, Rizal. After notice and publication nobody appeared to oppose the application. An order of general default was issued and the court allowed the petitioners to...