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Vicente Abaoag Vs. Director Of Lands 045 Phil 518

VICENTE ABAOAG ET AL., applicants-appellants, vs. THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS ET AL., opponents-appellees.

G.R. No. 20875 | 1923-12-13

D E C I S I O N


JOHNSON, J .:

From the record it appears that in the year 1884 a number of "Bagos" or Igorots or non-Christians, numbering at that time about thirty, were invited by the goberndorcillo and principalia of the then town of Alava, now the municipality of Sison, of the Province of Pangasinan, and given a tract of land which in the present complaint is alleged to have a superficial area of 77 hectares, 40 ares, and 50 centiares, in order that they might cultivate the same and increase the population of the said municipality; that said "Bagos" entered upon said land, took possession of it and have continued to live upon the...