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Alfredo Halili Vs. Arsenio H. Lacson 098 Phil 772

ALFREDO HALILI and TOMAS P. JACOB for themselves and in behalf and for the benefit of forty-one other persons all owning their respective houses inside the Palomar Compound, Tonco, Manila, petitioners-appellants, vs. ARSENIO H. LACSON, as Mayor of the City of Manila and ALEJO AQUINO, as City Engineer, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-8892 | 1956-04-11

D E C I S I O N


BAUTISTA ANGELO, J.:

Petitioners in their behalf and for the benefit of forty-one (41) other occupants of portions of the land known as Palomar Compound situated in Tondo, Manila, filed this petition for certiorari with the Court of First Instance of Manila seeking to enjoin respondents from carrying out their order of demolition of the houses they had erected inside said compound. The City of Manila, being a party in interest, was allowed to intervene.

Petitioners allege that they built their houses inside said compound way back in 1945, 1946 and 1947 and as soon as the City of Manila learned of this fact, it allowed...