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Municipality Of Batangas Vs. Albino N. Cantos 091 Phil 514

MUNICIPALITY OF BATANGAS, plaintiff-cross-defendant-appellee, vs. ALBINO N. CANTOS, JULIA B. CANTOS, ANACLETO BERA?A and HILARIO GAMBOA, defendants-appellants. ALBINO N. CANTOS and JULIA B. CANTOS, cross-plaintiffs. JOSE CAEDO, et als., cross-defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-4012 | 1952-06-30

D E C I S I O N


BAUTISTA ANGELO, J.:

This is an action for specific performance brought by the municipality of Batangas against the spouses Albino N. Cantos and Julia B. Cantos, as principals, and Anacleto Beraña and Hilaria Gamboa, as sureties, to compel the latter "to remove the Cine Batangas Building from the public school site situated on the parcel of land" belonging to the municipality at their expense, and to recover the sum of P2,000 as liquidated damages.

Defendants answered the complaint setting up certain special defenses and a counter-claim. In the counter-claim, defendants included as cross-defendants Jose Caedo,...