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de Leon, et al vs. Director of Lands, et al

JOSE L. DE LEON and NATIVIDAD JOVEN, applicants-appellees, vs. THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS, ET AL., oppositors-appellants.

G.R. No. 37454 | 1934-06-23

D E C I S I O N


BUTTE, J:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Tarlac in a land registration case, G. L. R. O. Record No. 36590, Expediente No. 1026, in which the appellants are the Director of Lands and seven homesteaders.

The land involved covers 62 hectares, 33 ares and 99 centiares situated in the barrio of Balibago, in the municipality of Tarlac in said province. In his application the petitioner, by his counsel, swore that he is in possession of the said land; that he and his predecessors for more than fifty years have kept the land constantly in cultivation for palay and sugar cane and enclosed...