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Laog Producers' Coop. Marketing Assn., Inc. vs. ML, et al.

LAOAG PRODUCERS' COOPERATIVE MARKETING ASSOCIATION, INC., plaintiff-appellant, vs. THE MUNICIPALITY OF LAOAG, ILOCOS NORTE, and PETRONILO JULIAN, as Municipal Treasurer, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-27498 | 1971-02-24

D E C I S I O N


REYES, J.B.L., J:

Direct appeal 1 by plaintiff-appellant Laoag Producers' Cooperative Marketing Association, Inc., from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Ilocos Norte, in its Civil Case No. 3976, upholding the validity of two (2) municipal ordinances of the Municipality of Laoag, Ilocos Norte (now city).

In enacting the said ordinances, the municipal council of Laoag invoked the authority of the Local Autonomy Act (Republic Act No. 2264). The first, Ordinance No. 10, series of 1960, provides that a permit be secured from the mayor's office by all wholesale dealers and vendors of Virginia leaf tobacco,...