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Director Of Lands Vs. Court Of Appeals

DIRECTOR OF LANDS and DIRECTOR OF FOREST DEVELOPMENT, petitioners, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS and TRINIDAD S. DE ARMEDILLA, in substitution of MARIA CALANOG, respondents.

G.R. No. 50260 | 1992-07-29

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

This is a petition for review on certiorari which seeks to reverse and set aside the decision of the Court of Appeals affirming that of the then Court of First Instance of Masbate granting the application for judicial confirmation of incomplete or imperfect title on a tract of public land in Barrio Calpi, San Pascual (now Claveria), Masbate, with an area of 598.4894 hectares.

Two hundred fifty-six (256) hectares of land are within Timberland Block A, Masbate L.C. Project No. 7, and certified by the Bureau of Forestry on March 11, 1930 as forest land. 1 The first known possessor of the entire tract of land...