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City Of Bacolod vs. San Miguel Brewery, Inc.

THE CITY OF BACOLOD, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SAN MIGUEL BREWERY, INC., defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. L-25134 | 1969-10-30

D E C I S I O N 


BARREDO, J.: 

An appeal from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental in its Civil Case No. 7355, ordering the San Miguel Brewery, Inc. to pay to the City of Bacolod the sum of P36,519.10, representing surcharges on certain fees which, under existing ordinances of the City of Bacolod, the San Miguel Brewery should have paid quarterly to the treasurer of the said city for and/or during the period from July, 1959 to December, 1962, but which were paid only on April 23, 1965. 

On February 17, 1949, the City Council of Bacolod passed Ordinance No. 66, series of 1949 imposing upon "any...