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Crispulo Sideco Vs. Leocadio Sarenas, Et Al. 041 Phil 80

CRISPULO SIDECO, plaintiff-appellant, vs. LEOCADIO SARENAS and RUFINO SARENAS, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. 15700 | 1920-09-18

D E C I S I O N


MALCOLM, J .:

This appeal requires an interpretation and an application of the various provisions of Philippine law which concern the subject of irrigation.

The rubric of the case is brief. Two parties, Crispulo Sideco on the one hand, and Leocadio Sarenas and Rufino Sarenas on the other hand, claim the exclusive right to the use of the waters flowing through the estero [estuary] Bangad, Province of Nueva Ecija, for irrigation purposes. The claim of Sideco goes back to 1885 when the predecessor in interest of his father constructed a dam in these waters; the use of the dam was afterwards interrupted by outside causes...