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Virginia Evangelista, Et Al. Vs. Court Of Appeals, Et Al.

VIRGINIA EVANGELISTA, ARSENIA EVANGELISTA, SALUD COSTUNA, JOSE SERAPIO, ZOSIMO M. SERAPIO, ARTURO M. SERAPIO, SALUD M. SERAPIO, FELIXBERTO M. SERAPIO and APOLONIO SERAPIO, petitioners, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and LUZON AGGREGATES, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. 41229 | 1992-01-13

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

Private respondent Luzon Aggregates, Inc., a corporation engaged in the quarrying of construction aggregates, is the lessee of 186.5703 hectares of placer mineral lands in Barrio Matictic, Poblacion Lanag and Cananan, Norzagaray, Bulacan of which eighteen (18) hectares are privately owned by the petitioners. 1

It appears from the records that at the instance of the private respondent and upon compliance with the procedure stated in Section 87 of the Mining Law (Commonwealth Act No. 137), 2 the Court of First Instance of Bulacan, Branch V (Sta. Maria) issued on February 21, 1974, a writ of preliminary...