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Francisco Gutierrez Repide vs Martin Astuar, et al

FRANCISCO GUTIERREZ REPIDE, general administrator of the Philippine Sugar Estates Development Company, Limited, plaintiff-appellant, vs. MARTIN ASTUAR, ET AL., defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. 505 | 1902-04-08

D E C I S I O N


WILLARD, J.:

On June 26, 1901, Baldomero de Hazañas, as attorney for the Philippine Sugar Estates Development Company Limited, a corporation, presented to the Court of First Instance of the Province of Cavite a petition asking that said company be placed in possession of the lands described in said petition, in accordance with the provisions of Title XIII of book 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure then in force.

In the petition two estates were described, one called San Isidro Labrador, or Naic, and the other Santa Cruz, or Tanza. The first has an area of 7,978 hectares 75 ares and 99 centares. A part of it was...