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Manuel I. Ramirez vs CA, et al.

MANUEL I. RAMIREZ, petitioner, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and ESMERALDO PONCE, respondents.

G.R. No. 117247 | 1996-04-12

PANGANIBAN, J.:


Does the judgment in a land registration case denying the application filed in court in 1957 by the parents of the herein petitioner for the registration of land allegedly formed by alluvial deposits, which judgment was eventually affirmed by the Court of Appeals in 1968 and became final, constitute res judicata as to bar a subsequent application by the herein petitioner to register the same property?

This is the question tackled by this Court in the instant petition for review on certiorari assailing the Decision 1 dated September 6, 1994 of the respondent Court 2 in CA-G.R. SP No. 33735, and the subsequent Resolution 3...