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Batangas Laguna Tayabas Bus Company vs. Public Service Commission, Et Al.

BATANGAS LAGUNA TAYABAS BUS COMPANY, petitioner, vs. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, acting through JUDGE JOSUE L. CADIAO, Associate Commissioner, and EASTERN TAYABAS BUS COMPANY, INC., respondents.

G.R. Nos. L-25994 and L-26004 to L-26046 | 1966-08-31

D E C I S I O N 


BENGZON, J.P., J.: 

Sometime in 1953 an agreement of lease was entered into by Eastern Tayabas Bus Co., Inc. and Laguna Tayabas Bus Co., Inc. The former leased to the latter, for a period of five years, its lines and equipment authorized for operation in the eastern portion of the Province of Quezon under various certificate of public convenience granted to it by the Public Service Commission. The lease was approved by the Public Service Commission. 

On June 30, 1958, the parties to the 1953 lease agreement - it having expired - executed a new lease contract providing for another period of five years. This...