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Rep Of the Phil vs Amanda Lat Vda. De Castillo etal

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. AMANDA LAT VDA. DE CASTILLO, FLORENCIO T. CASTILLO, SOLEDAD LOTA CASTILLO, CARLOS L. CASTILLO, NIEVES KATIGBAK CASTILLO, MARIANO L. CASTILLO, HIPOLITA DYTIAPCO CASTILLO, AIDA CASTILLO HERRERA, HERMITO HERRERA, JOSE L. CASTILLO, LILLA MACEDA CASTILLO, TERESITA L. CASTILLO, REGISTER OF DEEDS OF BATANGAS and THE INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, respondents.

G.R. No. L-69002 | 1988-06-30

D E C I S I O N


PARAS, J.:

This is a petition for review on certiorari of the April 26, 1984 Decision of the then Intermediate Appellate Court ** reversing the February 6, 1976 Decision of the then Court of First Instance of Batangas, Branch VI, in Civil Case No. 2044.

The antecedental facts of this case, as found by the then Intermediate Appellate Court, are as follows:

"Sometime in 1951, the late Modesto Castillo applied for the registration of two parcels of land, Lots 1 and 2, located in Banadero, Tanauan, Batangas, described in Plan Psu-119166, with a total area of 39,755 square meters. In a decision dated August 31, 1951, the...