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Teofilo Cacho vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

TEOFILO CACHO, petitioner-appellant vs. COURT OF APPEALS, REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, NATIONAL STEEL CORPORATION and THE CITY OF ILIGAN, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. 123361 | 1997-03-03

D E C I S I O N


MELO, J.:

The late Doña Demetria Cacho applied for the registration of two parcels of land situated in what was then Lanao, Moro Province. Both parcels were within the limits of Military Reservation No. 43, known as "Camp Overton".

The petitions were docketed as GLRO Record No. 6908 & 6909 and were jointly tried and decided by Judge Jesse Jorge on December 10, 1912.

In the said decision, which was affirmed in toto by this Court in Cacho vs. Government of the United States (28 Phil. 616 [1914]), the trial court made the following pronouncements:

Re: Case No. 6908

The parcel object of Case No. 6908 is small. It...