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Tan vs. Rep of the Phil.

NICANOR TAN, petitioner-appellee, vs. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, oppositor-appellant.

G.R. No. L-1551 | 1949-10-31

D E C I S I O N

REYES, J p:

This is an appeal by the Government from a decision of the Court of First Instance of Cagayan, granting Nicanor Tan's petition for naturalization.
The uncontradicted proof shows that the petitioner Nicanor Tan was born in Aparri, Cagayan, on January 10, 1921, the son of Tan Lingco and Chua Lian, both Chinese; that he obtained his primary education in Aparri, his intermediate education in Manila, and his high school education in Mapua Institute of Technology in Manila; that he speaks English, Tagalog, and Ilocano and Writes English; that he took an engineering course in the University of the Philippines and was...