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Director Of Lands Vs. Eduardo Gutierrez David 050 Phil 797

THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS and AMBROSIO CRISTAL and twenty others, petitioners, vs. EDUARDO GUTIERREZ DAVID, Judge of First Instance of Nueva Ecija, VICENTE LOPEZ and CARMEN GONZALEZ, respondents.

G.R. No. 28151 | 1927-10-03

D E C I S I O N


JOHNSON, J.:

This is an original petition presented in the Supreme Court, praying for the writ of certiorari.

The important question presented by said petition is : Has a judge of the Court of Land Registration jurisdiction to change, alter, modify or amend a decree in a land registration case after said decree has become final and unappealable ?

The undisputed facts of record may be stated as follows:

(a) That sometime prior to the 3d day of August, 1918, a petition was presented in the Court of First Instance of the Province of Nueva Ecija for the registration of a piece or parcel of land alleged to contain about...