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Isaias Angcao vs. Jose Punzalan 120 Phil. 1502

ISAIAS ANGCAO, ET AL., plaintiffs-appellants, vs. JOSE PUNZALAN, RICARDO C. REYES, Justice of the Peace of Samal, Bataan, and PEDRO ALDEA, Provincial Sheriff Ex-Oficio of Bataan, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-20521 | 1964-12-28

D E C I S I O N 


PAREDES, J.: 

Under date of March 14, 1957, Jose Punzalan presented with the Justice of the Peace Court of Samal, Bataan, a complaint for ejectment against Isaias Angcao et al. (Civil Case No. 100), involving a parcel of land located in sitio ,Buñga, barrio of Sta. Lucia, Samal, Bataan. In the complaint, Punzalan alleged that the land was covered by a Homestead application in his name and approved by the Bureau of Lands on November 15, 1933; that he has been in legal and actual occupancy of said land until March 30, 1956, when Angcao and others, by means of force, strategy and stealth, unlawfully took possession of...