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Fructuoso Garcia vs. Abelardo Aportadera

FRUCTUOSO GARCIA, ALFREDO SUERTE, and CAMILO SABLAY, petitioners-appellants, vs. HON. ABELARDO APORTADERA, as Presiding Judge, CFI, Cotabato, Br. IV, AURELIO AMPIG, THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS and THE REGISTER OF DEEDS of the Province of Cotabato, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-34122 | 1988-08-29

D E C I S I O N


GRIá'O-AQUINO, J.:

This is a petition for certiorari to review the order dated May 3, 1968 of the then Court of First Instance of Cotabato dismissing the complaint for annulment of a homestead patent title.

On October 12, 1966, the petitioners filed in the Court of First Instance of Cotabato a petition to annul Homestead Patent No. 112146 and cancel the patent title, OCT No. P-26515, which had been issued to the homesteader Aurelio Ampig for a 4.4061-hectare parcel of land. The petitioners alleged that the land was part of the 24-hectare area in Barrio Edzeniben, Sultan sa Barongis, Cotabato, subject of the homestead...