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carias Omo Vs. Insular Gov't.

ZACARIAS OMO, petitioner-appellee, vs. THE INSULAR GOVERNMENT, respondent-appellant.

G.R. No. 3897 | 1908-08-10

D E C I S I O N


WILLARD, J.:

This is an appeal from the Court of Land Registration. By Executive Order No. 34, series of 1903, dated June 5, 1903, the Civil Governor of the Philippine Islands, by virtue of the provisions of Act No. 648, reserved and withdrew from sale, settlement, or private mining claim, for the purpose of governmental coal mining, all the public domain in that part of the Island of Batan west of the shortest straight line drawn from the center of the mouth of the creek which empties into the head of Caracaran Bay, on the south side of the island, to the waters of Gaba Bay on the north side of said island.

The Civil...