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Esteban Zarraga Vs. C.H. Sleeper, Et Al. 025 Phil 650

ESTEBAN ZARRAGA, plaintiff-appellee, vs. C.H. SLEEPER, Direct of of Lands, and CHAS, H. WALT, Administrator of Lands of the Insular Government in the municipality of Bi?ang, Laguna, JUSTINIANO JAOJOCO and BASILIO CAPUNITAN, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 7464 | 1913-02-14

D E C I S I O N


ARELLANO, C.J.:

When the Insular Government purchased the Biñang estate, on of those known as the 'friar estates," Paulino Samson had been from the time of the friars until then the lessee of a parcel of rural in said estate.

Esteban Zarraga, as the assignee of Paulino Samson's lease, obtained from C.H. Sleeper, Director of the Bureau of Lands and representative of the Government of the Philippine Islands, a lease of said parcel of land.

This contract was executed on December 19, 1905, though effective from November 1 of the same year, for a term of one year from date and a rental price of $5 United States...