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Eduardo Suarez Vs. Mount Arayat Sugar Co. Inc. 096 Phil 707

EDUARDO SUAREZ, ET AL., plaintiffs-appellees, vs. MOUNT ARAYAT SUGAR CO. INC., ET AL., defendants, MOUNT ARAYAT SUGAR CO. INC., LA CENTRAL AZUCARERA DE LA CARLOTA and PAMPANGA SUGAR DEVELOPMENT CO., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-6435 | 1955-03-31

D E C I S I O N


REYES, J.B.L., J.:

This litigation is in the nature of a test case to determine the nature and alineability of the interest held by the owners of sugar cane plantations and of sugar mills, or centrals, in the production and marketing allowances (vulgarly known as "sugar quotas") fixed under the Philippine Sugar Limitation Act (No. 4166, as amended) and the various acts of the U. S. Congress limiting the amount of sugar that may enter the continental United States without payment of duties. Because of the amount involved, the case was directly appealed to us from the Court of First Instance of Manila.

The basic facts are...