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[2/2] Rp vs. Lichauco

[2/2] REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES (Represented by the Land Tenure Administration, substituted by the Land Authority), plaintiff and appellant, vs. MARIANO F. LICHAUCO, ET AL., defendants. JOSE M. LICHAUCO, TRINIDAD GONZALES, FRANCISCO CASTILLO and JOSE CASTILLO,

G.R. No. L-21436 | 1972-08-18

We shall now resolve the issues raised in the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth errors assigned.

We find to be untenable the contention of plaintiff-appellant that the trial court erred in making a classification of every lot owned by each of the owners of the hacienda rather than considering the whole hacienda as one whole mass owned by several co-owners. The record clearly shows that the hacienda had already been partitioned among the several heirs such that each one of the defendants-appellees owned his/her portion separate and distinct from that of the others. In this connection, the following ruling is pertinent:

"It has been...