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Tiongson vs. Director of Forestry, et al

ROSALINA TONGSON, applicant-appellee, vs. DIRECTOR OF FORESTRY, ET AL., oppositors-appellants, MACARIO BERMEJO, ETC., oppositor.

G.R. No. L-34463 | 1977-09-27

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

The sole appellant in this application for registration of title for Lot 855 of the cadastral survey of Pilar is the Director of Forestry, one of the oppositors. It assailed the lower court decision in favor of another oppositor, Macario Bermejo. 1 The question raised is one of law, whether or not a parcel of land, in the possession of the predecessors-in-interest and the oppositor Bermejo as far back as 1905, asserted to have originally been mangrove swamps, thereafter converted into a fishpond, may still be considered as part of the timber domain which is not disposable. As the sole issue is one of law, the...