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Valte vs CA

REYNOSA VALTE, petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF APPEALS, PEDRO MENDOZA and JOSE GONZALES, respondents.

G.R. No. 146825 | 2004-06-29

D E C I S I O N




CARPIO MORALES, J.:

Petitioner filed an Application for Free Patent[1] dated July 6, 1978 before the Bureau of Lands District Office, Region III-2 at Cabanatuan City which was docketed as Application No. 12409. The application covered a parcel of land in Lupao, Nueva Ecija "[i]dentical to Lot No. 1035-B of Plan Csd-03-000514-D" alleged to contain an area of 7 hectares, 22 ares and 55 centares.

In the application, petitioner stated that, inter alia, the land was first occupied and cultivated in May 1941 by her father Policarpio Valte who died on February 10, 1963.

To the application was attached a July 6, 1978 Joint...