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Pedro P. Arong Vs. Miguel Raffinan 098 Phil 422

PEDRO P. ARONG, plaintiff-appellant, vs. MIGUEL RAFFINAN and A. INCLINO, as City Mayor and City Treasurer of Cebu City, respectively, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-8673 | 1956-02-18

D E C I S I O N


BAUTISTA ANGELO, J.:

This appeal stems from a decision rendered in two cases which were jointly tried by the Court of First Instance of Cebu. In one Pedro P. Arong, as owner of Liberty Theater operated in the City of Cebu, impleaded the mayor and treasurer of said city to recover the sum of P11,021.22 paid under protest as license fee collected under Ordinance No. 43, series of 1947, on the ground that said ordinances are illegal and oppressive and were enacted in violation of the City Charter (Case No. R-728). In the other, John D. Young and six other owners and operators of theaters in the city likewise impleaded the same...