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PEOPLE vs. Filomeno Daligdig 089 Phil 598

THE PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. FILOMENO DALIGDIG, ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-2432 | 1951-07-31

D E C I S I O N


MONTEMAYOR, J.:

Several years before the last world war Nicasio Layaoen, the central figure in this case, was a farmer in Ilocos Norte. Enterprising, adventurous and capable, and undoubtedly desiring to improve his lot and realize his dream of carving out a landed estate from the virgin lands of the Subprovince of Apayao, he emigrated there, taking with him as tenants and helpers a number of his province and townmates, and leaving behind in Ilocos Norte, a son Alfredo and a daughter Mercedes by a former marriage. Thus in January, 1945, we find Nicasio, whom we may call Nic for short, in the barrio of Tanglangan,...