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PEOPLE Vs. Julio Lug-Aw, Et Al.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. JULIO LUG-AW AND ROGELIO BANNAY alias JUNIOR BANNAY, defendant-appellants.

G.R. No. 85735 | 1994-01-18

D E C I S I O N


ROMERO, J.:

This case demonstrates how passion can sway people who perceive that their right to till the soil is being violated ---- Carlos Pal-loy was shot to death as he was fencing the boundary limits of the land he was farming by persons identified with the owner of the land adjacent to his own and with whom Pal-loy had a boundary dispute.

Pal-loy was farming part of the communal forest land located in Sitio Kalipkip, Sto. Niño, Maddela, Quirino. Despite the boundary dispute between him and his neighbor, Conchita Tipon (Nipol or Ngipol), on December 12, 1985, Pal-loy straightened out the boundary line by...