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Payatas Estate Improvement Co. Vs. Mariano Tuason

PAYATAS ESTATE IMPROVEMENT CO., petitioner-appellant, vs. MARIANO TUASON, AUGUSTO TUASON ET AL., appellees.

G.R. No. 30067 | 1929-03-23

D E C I S I O N


OSTRAND, J.:

Maria de la Concepcion Martinez Cañas was originally the owner of the so-called Payatas estate, the principal part of which was bounded on the east by the Mariquina River. The so-called Mariquina estate adjoined the river on the other side and belonged to the Tuasons.
In 1904, shortly after the initiation of the Torrens system of land registration, Maria de la Concepcion Cañas had the property surveyed and obtained a certificate of title to the same. Later on the land, consisting of three parcels, A, B and C, was sold by her to the Payatas Estate Improvement Company. In 1920 another survey was...