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Dap Mining Association vs CA, etc

DAP MINING ASSOCIATION, petitioner, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS, CHICO MINES, INC. OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT, MIDEX (Phil.), INC., JUANITO C. FERNANDEZ, ERNESTO MACEDA, FULGENCIO FACTORAN, JR., and CATALINO MACARAIG, JR., respondents.

G.R. No. 92328 | 2001-06-06

D E C I S I O N

VITUG, J.:

The instant petition was re-raffled to herein ponente pursuant to A.M. No. 00-9-03-SC (Re: Creation of Special Committee on Case Backlog).

The case is an appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeals, promulgated on 20 November 1989 in C.A. G.R. SP No. 12856, dismissing the petition for certiorari filed by petitioner DAP Mining Association and affirming the order, dated 05 March 1987, of then Executive Secretary Catalino Macaraeg, Jr.

On 04 July 1971, petitioner entered into a contract with respondent Chico Mines, Inc., for the occupation, possession, control, operation and exploitation of seventy-one (71)...