Director of Lands v.

Reyes (68 SCRA 177)
THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS, THE DIRECTOR OF FORESTRY, and
the ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioners,
vs.
HON. SALVADOR C. REYES, as Judge of the Court of First Instance
of Nueva Ecija, Branch III, PARAÑAQUE INVESTMENT and
DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, ROMAN C. TAMAYO, THE
COMMISIONER OF THE LAND REGISTRATION COMMISSION and
the REGISTER OF DEEDS OF NUEVA ECIJA, respondents.
G.R. No. L-27594; November 28, 1975
After the trial, the CFI granted the application and ordered registration,
which the Director of Lands, Director of Forestry, and the Armed
Forces of the Philippines appealed to SC, where they claim that the
plans presented by the applicants failed to identify the parcel
of land sought to be registered.
Issue/s:
Whether or not the plans presented by the applicants are sufficient to
prove the identity of the land in dispute.

ALIPIO ALINSUNURIN, now substituted by PARAÑAQUE Ruling:

INVESTMENT and DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, applicant-
appellee,
vs.
THE DIRECTOR OF LANDS, THE DIRECTOR OF FORESTRY and
the ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES, oppositors-appellants.
No.
The Court held that the original tracing cloth plan of the land applied
for, which must be approved by the Director of Lands, was not
submitted in evidence.

G.R. No. L-28144 November 28, 1975 The submission of such plan is a statutory requirement of mandatory
character. Unless a plan and its technical description are duly
Facts: approved by the Director of Lands, the same are not of much value.

In 1964 Alisunurin filed his application for the registration of a vast The blueprints of two survey plans presented had no approval of the
tract of land, containing an area of 16,800 hectares, with the CFI of Director of Lands, thus these did not suffice the requirement of the law
Nueva Ecija. The land was admittedly inside the boundary of the
military reservation of Fort Magsaysay. During the pendency of
the case, PIDC substituted Alinsunurin since the former acquired the
ownership of the land.

The Director of Lands, Director of Forestry, and the Armed Forces of

the Philippines opposed the application, claiming that the applicant
was without sufficient title and that approximately 13,957 hectares of
said land consist of the military reservation of Fort Magsaysay
established under Proclamation No. 237, dated December 10, 1955 of
the President.

To prove the claim, the applicants presented blueprints of two survey

plans but lack the approval of the Director of Lands.