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Smith, Bell & Co. Vs. Director Of Lands 050 Phil 879

SMITH, BELL & CO., LTD., applicant-appellant, vs. THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS ET AL., opponents-appellees.

G.R. No. 22193 | 1924-11-20

D E C I S I O N


OSTRAND, J.:

It appears from the evidence that in the year 1893 an Englishman named Pickford caused a tract of land situated in the barrio of Agtiwi, municipality of Toledo, Cebu, to be surveyed by a public surveyor Ignacio Regner and instituted possessory information proceedings in regard to the same. The record of the information was inscribed in the registry of property of the Province of Cebu on April 28, 1894, and recited that the land consisted of 32 contiguous parcels purchased by Pickford from previous owners who had occupied their respective parcels for ten years or more. The total area of the land was stated to...