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Director of Lands vs. CA, et al.

DIRECTOR OF LANDS, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and GLORIA FRANCO, respondents. Augusto O. Cabral for private respondent.

G.R. No. 52491 | 1990-01-29

D E C I S I O N

GANCAYCO, J:

This is a petition for review of the decision of the Court of Appeals in CA-G.R. No. 48663-R dated January 15, 1980. 1

The facts of the case are succinctly related in the appealed decision as follows:

"In Land Registration Case No. N-32, L.R.C. No. 37146 of the Court of First Instance of Zamboanga del Norte, Gloria Cabral-Franco ("APPLICANT" for short),sought to register a 104.9231 hectare parcel of land situated at Sta. Maria, Siocon, Zamboanga. The Republic of the Philippines was the sole oppositor.

The record discloses that before 1921, two natives named Ulungkaya Isla (TD 855) and Maud Calibugan (TDs...