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Republic vs. Court of Appeals and Carantes 154 SCRA 476

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, represented by the Director of Forest Development and the Director of Lands, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, and MARTINA CARANTES for and in behalf of the Heirs of SALMING PIRASO, respondents

G.R. No. L-56984 | 1987-09-30

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J p:

This is a petition for review on certiorari to set aside the decision of the Court of Appeals affirming in toto the judgment of the Court of First Instance of Baguio and Benguet, Branch III, at La Trinidad in LRC Case No. N-287, Record No. 37205, the dispositive portion of which reads as follows:

"It having been proven convincingly that this land was owned and possessed by the late Salming Piraso and later by his successors-in- interest, who are his children for a period of more than thirty years up to this date, they have shown to have a registerable title on the property which the Court therefore...