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Hilda Walstrom vs. Fernando Mapa, Jr., et al.

HILDA WALSTROM, petitioner-appellant, vs. FERNANDO MAPA, JR., VICTORINO A. MAPA, MARIA C.M. DE GOCO, FERNANDO MAPA, III, MARIO L. MAPA, and THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OF THE PROVINCE OF BENGUET, respondents-appellees. Pelaez, Adriano & Gregorio for petitioner-appellant. Tomas G. Mapa & Associates for private respondents.

G.R. No. 38387 | 1990-01-29

D E C I S I O N

SARMIENTO, J:

This is a review of the Order dated December 1, 1973 of the then Court of First Instance of Baguio-Benguet, Branch IV, which dismissed, before trial on the merits, the petitioner's complaint in Civil Case No. 2434. The concluding portion of the assailed order states:

This Court is unprepared to consider this case as falling under any of the exceptions to the rule on exhaustion of administrative remedies because under plaintiffs allegations, her "Petition for Relief" is still pending resolution by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources who may reconsider his action on the matter in dispute; and,...