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Valdez vs. Director of Lands [DECISION]

BENITO VALDEZ ET AL., applicants-appellees, vs. THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS, THE DIRECTOR OF FORESTRY AND PRIMITIVO ANTONIO ET AL., oppositors-appellants.

G.R. No. 39765 | 1935-10-24

D E C I S I O N
 
BUTTE, J.:
 
This is a land registration case which involves the title to a vast tract of unenclosed agricultural land, some twenty kilometers long by twelve and one-half kilometers wide, located at the southern tip of the island of Masbate. In their original application for registration of this, land, filed on May 19, 1931, the applicants, Benito Valdez et al., claimed 28,006.5959 hectares. On the day of the hearing, they moved that lot No. 5, covered by patent (Spanish titulo) No. 12, be eliminated from their application, leaving 26,227.1941 hectares claimed. We shall refer to this elimination of  lot No. 5...