JUAN N. ARAGON , petitioner-appellee, vs . THE INSULAR
GOVERNMENT , oppositor-appellant.
Attorney-General Villamor for appellant.
Ariston Estrada for appellee.
SYLLABUS
1. REALTY; ABANDONMENT OF PROPERTY; TIDE-WATER LANDS;
OWNERSHIP. — Held, That the facts proven and set out in the opinion do not establish the abandonment of possession of the land in controversy, under a claim of ownership, nor its total deduction by the erosive action of the sea, so as to establish the loss of possession thereof under the provisions of article 460 of the Civil Code.
DECISION
CARSON , J : p
This is an appeal from a decree of the Court of Land Registration adjudicating
Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates
1772