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C. N. Hodges vs. Municipality Board Of The City Of Iloilo, Et Al.

C. N. HODGES, petitioner-appellee, vs. THE MUNICIPALITY BOARD of the City of Iloilo, HON. RODOLFO GANZON, in his capacity as City Mayor of the City of Iloilo; and the CITY OF ILOILO, respondents-appellants.

G.R. No. L-18276 | 1967-01-12

D E C I S I O N 


CASTRO, J.: 

The respondents, on appeal by writ of error, ask us to review a judgment of the Court of First Instance of Iloilo, in an action for declaratory relief, annulling ordinance 31, series of 1960, of the City of Iloilo and ordering the said City to reimburse to the petitioner C. N. Hodges whatever amounts he had paid to the former by reason of the operation of the ordinance. 

The parties are agreed on the antecedent facts. On June 7, 1960, invoking Republic Act 2264, otherwise known as the Local Autonomy Act, the municipal board of the City of Iloilo enacted ordinance 31, entitled "An Ordinance Imposing...