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Antonio Chiao Ben Lim vs. Mariano A. Zosa

ANTONIO CHIAO BEN LIM, petitioner, vs. HON. MARIANO A. ZOSA, Judge of the Court of First Instance of Cebu, Branch V and the local civil registrar of the City of Cebu, respondents.

G.R. No. L-40252 | 1986-12-29

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J:

This is an appeal by certiorari from two Orders 1 of the respondent judge dismissing a petition for the correction of an allegedly wrong entry in the birth records of Kim Joseph describing him as a Chinese national instead of a Filipino citizen.

The petitioner had offered to prove the error through several pieces of evidence, among them an earlier birth certificate of Kim Joseph describing him as a Filipino citizen, the birth certificates of his seven brothers and sisters all describing them as Filipinos, and a decision of the Court of Appeals recognizing their grandfather as a Filipino citizen. 2

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