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Cenon Mateo vs. Florencio Moreno, Et Al.

CENON MATEO, petitioner-appellant, vs. HON. FLORENCIO MORENO, in his capacity as SECRETARY OF PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-21024 | 1969-07-28

D E C I S I O N 


MAKALINTAL, J.: 

This case, elevated to the Court of Appeals by the petitioner for review of the decision of the Court of First Instance of Manila dismissing his petition for injunction, was subsequently certified to us under Section 31 of Republic Act No. 296. 

Sometime in 1959 a number of residents of Guiguinto, Bulacan, sent a letter-complaint to the Highway District Engineer of that province asking that the Sapang Cabay, a public navigable stream, which had been blocked by means of dikes and dams and converted into fishponds, be ordered reopened and restored to its original condition. The letter was...