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E.B. Marcha Transport ,etal vs. I. A. Court, etal.

E. B. MARCHA TRANSPORT CO., INC. and EPIFANIO B. MARCHA, petitioners, vs. THE HON. INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT and REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. 70636 | 1987-01-21

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J.:

There is no need to resolve all the issues raised in this petition for review by certiorari of the decision of the respondent court. The only question we have to decide is whether or not the Republic of the Philippines was the proper party to sue the petitioner for recovery of possession of the property occupied by them and for back rentals thereon.

The said property is indisputably public land which petitioner Epifanio B. Marcha entered in 1949 without any previous authorization from the government. 1 It is located in Tondo, Manila, within the customs zone. On May 11, 1977, the Republic of the Philippines...