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Kasilag vs. Rodriguez [ CONCURRING OPINION, LAUREL, J. ]

MARCIAL KASILAG, petitioner, vs. RAFAELA RODRIGUEZ, URBANO ROQUE, SEVERO MAPILISAN and IGNACIO DEL ROSARIO, respondents.

G.R. No. 46623 | 1939-12-07

LAUREL, J., concurring:

On August 27, 1918, Emiliana Ambrosio put in a home- stead application for lot No. 285 of the Limay Cadastre, Province of Bataan. After complying with the requisite legal formalities, she obtained therefor homestead patent No. 16074 and homestead certificate of title 325 on June 11, 1931, the same having been recorded in the registry of Deeds of Bataan on June 26, 1931. On May 16, 1932, she entered with the herein petitioner, Marcial Kasilag, into a contract, Exhibit 1, inserted in the foregoing majority opinion.

Sometime in 1933, or a year after the execution of the aforequoted deed, the patentee failed to pay the...