Manuel Roa vs. Director of Lands 46 Phil 862

MANUEL ROA, as guardian and on behalf of the minors Jesus and Jose Roa, ET AL., petitioners-appellees, vs. THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS, on behalf of the Government of the Philippine Islands, ET AL., opponents-appellants; PATRICIO LI?AN and CATALINO NERI, opponents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-20387 | 1923-10-19

Right to privacy not absolute, right of the people to access information on matters of public concern generally prevails over the right to privacy of ordinary financial transactions
Right to privacy not absolute where there is an overriding compelling state interest, employ the rational basis relationship test
Right to privacy

D E C I S I O N

ROMUALDEZ, J .:

The Court of First Instance of Misamis adjudicated to the applicants the lands described in the application, and decreed the registration thereof in their name, with the exclusion of those claimed in this case by Catalino Neri and Patricio Liñan, overruling the oppositions presented by Jorgia Asinero and others, on the one hand, and by the Government of the Philippine Islands represented by the Director of Lands, on the other.

Jorgia Asinero and her cooppositors, as well as the Director of Lands, appealed from said judgment, and the former assign errors to the action of the lower court:

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