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Government of the Phil., Menzi & Co., Inc.

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, applicant; TOMAS BALANDRA, petitioner-appellant. LEVY HERMANOS, INC., applicant-appellants, vs. MENZI & CO., INC., ET AL., oppositors-appellees.

G.R. No. 45848 | 1938-09-30

D E C I S I O N


CONCEPCION, J:

This is a case, probably the first of its kind to docketed in this court, wherein through an error the tiles to two lots were decreed and said two lots were registered in the registry in favor of two different applicants, the lot belonging to one thereby becoming the property of the other while, on the other hand, the other lot corresponding to the latter was decreed and registered in favor of the other applicant.

Briefly the facts are as follows:

Lot No. 298 of the cadastre of Cadiz of the Province of Occidental Negros was divided by the Director of Lands for the purpose of determining the boundaries of...