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Roberto Agura Vs. Federico Serfino, Sr.

ROBERTO AGURA, CESAR ALIB, TOMAS STA. RITA, ALFREDO CORDOVA, VICTOR DE LOS REYES, and MARINA SERFINO, petitioners, vs. FEDERICO SERFINO, SR., FEDERICO SERFINO, JR., The Honorable RONALDO B. ZAMORA, Presidential Assistant for Legal Affairs, Office of the Department of Natural Resources, and The Court of First Instance of Manila, Branch XXI, respondents. Francisco B. Cruz and Gruba, Tanlimco, Lamson & Burgos for petitioners.

G.R. No. 50685 | 1991-12-04

D E C I S I O N


DAVIDE, JR., J.:

In this petition for review on certiorari, petitioners seek to nullify the decision dated 30 April 1979 of the then Court of First Instance (now Regional Trial Court) of Manila, Branch XXI, in Civil Case No. 113897, which affirmed the decisions of the Presidential Assistant for Legal Affairs and the then Minister of Natural Resources giving due course to the Miscellaneous Sales Applications filed by private respondents with the Bureau of Lands.

The relevant factual and procedural antecedents which gave rise to this petition as gathered from the pleadings are as follows:

On 10 December 1965, private...