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Vicente Sotto Vs. Filemon Sotto 043 Phil 688

VICENTE SOTTO, petitioner, vs. FILEMON SOTTO, respondent.

G.R. No. L-17768 | 1922-09-01

D E C I S I O N


OSTRAND, J.:

This is a petition under section 513 of the Code of Civil Procedure to reopen the land registration proceedings in regard to lot No. 7510 of the Cadaster of Cebu.

The petitioner alleges that he is the owner of said lot No. 7510; that in or about the year 1907 he absented himself from the city of Cebu, leaving the respondent in charge of the lot; that on or about the 16th of April, 1921, the petitioner, upon visiting the office of the clerk of the Court of First Instance of Cebu, discovered that the respondent had fraudulently obtained the registration of said lot in his own name and that a certificate of...