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De La Cruz, et al. Vs. CA, et al.

EUGENIO DE LA CRUZ and MANUEL MONSALUD, petitioners, vs. HON. COURT OF APPEALS and LUIS AGUILAR, respondents.

G.R. No. L-24000 | 1971-11-29

D E C I S I O N


MAKALINTAL, J:

The only issue in this appeal by certiorari is whether the herein petitioner Eugenio de la Cruz has been correctly adjudged by the respondent Court in its CA-G.R. No. 27196-R to pay the sum of P1,000.00 as attorney's fees to respondent Luis Aguilar.

The facts as found by the Court of Appeals, which are susbstantially the same as those found by the trial court, are as follows:

"Pursuant to Reorganization Plan No. 77 implemented by Executive Orders 257 of July 5, 1957, the Reorganization Commission, acting upon the authority of Republic Act No. 997 as amended by Republic Act No. 1241, created the Forest...