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Philippine Milling Company, Et Al. vs. Celso Llobregat, Et Al.

PHILIPPINE MILLING COMPANY, HECTOR A. TORRES and FRANCISCO M. GOMEZ, plaintiffs-appellants, vs. CELSO LLOBREGAT, JULIAN C. SINGSON, and VILLA-ABRILLE & COMPANY, defendants-appellants. LIBERATO JEQUINTO, ET AL., defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-15090 | 1966-10-29

D E C I S I O N 


REYES, J.B.L., J.: 

Direct appeal from a decision of the Court of First Instance of Manila (Civil Case No. 23906) in view of the fact that the amount in controversy exceeds P200,000. 

The antecedents of the case are as follows: 

When the sugar quota system was established in the Philippines prior to World War II, pursuant to the Sugar Limitation Act (Act No. 4166 of the Philippine Legislature), the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila was the lessee of certain public lands owned by the Government in San Jose, Mindoro, and designated in the records of the Sugar Quota Office as Sugar Plantations 30-5 and 30-6,...