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Gold Creek Mining Corporation vs. Rodrigues, et al

GOLD CREEK MINING CORPORATION, petitioner, vs. EULOGIO RODRIGUEZ, Secretary of Agricultural and Commerce, and QUIRICO ABADILLA, Director of the Bureau of Mines, respondents.

G.R. No. 45859 | 1938-09-28

D E C I S I O N


ABAD SANTOS, J:

This petition seeks to compel the respondents, as Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce and as Director of the Bureau of Mines, respectively, to approve petitioner's application for patent for a certain mining claim and prepare the necessary papers in relation thereto, and to forward and submit said papers for the signature of the President of the Philippines.

The petition alleges that petitioner owns the Nob Fraction mineral claim, situated in the barrio of Gomok, municipality of Itogon, sub-province of Benguet, Mountain Province, and located on public lands by C. L. O'Dowd in accordance with the...