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Min.of Nat Resources etal Vs Heirs of Orval Hughes

MINISTER OF NATURAL RESOURCES, and DIRECTOR OF LANDS, petitioners, vs. HEIRS OF ORVAL HUGHES, et al., respondents.

G.R. No. L-62664 | 1987-11-12

D E C I S I O N


NARVASA, J.:

These proceedings lay bare a most blatant manifestation of forum-shopping, a reprehensible manipulation of court processes and proceedings which has succeeded in delaying enforcement of an administrative decision rendered more than twenty (20) years ago, against which this court will extend its correcting hand, not only to strike down those reprehensible stratagems but also to assure that the decision may, at long last, be finally carried out.

The events that gave rise to the present controversy go far back in time, to the 'twenties' in fact. In 1924, a gentleman by the name of Orval Hughes was granted a...