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Etorma vs. Ravelo

JULIANA ETORMA, ROSARIO INDEFENSO and GREGORIO SALUMBIDES, petitioners, vs. LUCILA RAVELO and THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-718 | 1947-03-24

FERIA, J.:

The petition for certiorari filed in the above entitled case on July 13, 1946, assailed the validity of the judgment of the Court of Appeals which affirmed in December, 1942, the decision of the Court of First Instance of Tayabas against the petitioners, on the ground that the judgment rendered by the Court of Appeals during the Japanese occupation was null and void, because the question involved in the litigation was the validity or invalidity of a free patent issued by the Governor General of the Philippines under the authority granted by an Act of Congress of the United States; one of the parties in the case was the Director...