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Sta. Ines Melale Forest Products vs. Catalino Macaraig, Jr., et al.

STA. INES MELALE FOREST PRODUCTS CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. HON. CATALINO MACARAIG, JR., EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT; HON. SAMILO N. BARLONGAY, ACTING DEPUTY EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT; HON. SECRETARY OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HON. DIRECTOR OF BUREAU OF FOREST DEVELOPMENT; AGUSAN WOOD INDUSTRIES, INC. and KALILID WOOD INDUSTRIES, INC. respondents.

G.R. No. 80849 | 1998-12-02

D E C I S I O N


PUNO, J.:

These consolidated petitions pertain to a boundary dispute between petitioner STA. INES MELALE FOREST PRODUCTS CORPORATION (hereafter referred to as Sta. Ines), and private respondents AGUSAN WOOD INDUSTRIES, INC. (hereafter referred to as Agwood) and KALILID WOOD INDUSTRIES, INC. (hereafter referred to as Kalilid). The complaints of Agwood and Kalilid that Sta. Ines had encroached on their timber license areas, were decided in their favor, in the first instance, by the Director of Forest Development;1 [Order of Edmundo V. Cortes, dated February 21, 1980, Rollo of G.R. No. 80849, pp. 42-44.] on appeal,2...