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Santos vs. Moreno

ROMAN R. SANTOS, petitioner-appellee, vs. HON. FLORENCIO MORENO, as Secretary of Public Works and Communications and JULIAN C. CARGULO, respondents-appellants.

G.R. No. L-15829 | 1967-12-04

D E C I S I O N 


BENGZON, J.P., J.: 

THE APPEAL 

The Honorable Secretary of Public Works & Communications appeals from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Manila declaring of private ownership certain creeks situated in barrio San Esteban, Macabebe, Pampanga. 

THE BACKGROUND 

The Zobel family of Spain formerly owned a vast track of marshland in the municipality of Macabebe, Pampanga province. Called Hacienda San Esteban, it was administered and managed by the Ayala y Cia. From the year 1860 to about the year 1924 Ayala y Cia., devoted the hacienda to the planting and cultivation of nipa palms from which...