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Municipality Of Lucban Vs. Nat'l. Waterworks & Sewerage Authority

THE MUNICIPALITY OF LUCBAN, plaintiff-appellee, vs. NATIONAL WATERWORKS AND SEWERAGE AUTHORITY, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-15525 | 1961-10-11

D E C I S I O N 


BENGZON, C.J.: 

This case commenced with a complaint filed in the Court of First Instance of Quezon City by the Municipality of Lucban as party plaintiff, against the national Waterworks and Sewerage Authority (hereafter called NAWASA) as party defendant. It prayed among other things that: (1) the provisions of Section 1, 8 and 9 of Republic Act No. 1383 and those executive orders and circulars providing for the transfer of the ownership and operation of the waterworks of municipalities to the NAWASA, be declared unconstitutional; and (2) and NAWASA, and its agents be enjoined from assuming the ownership and...