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Ma-ao Sugar Central Co., Inc. vs. Rodriguez

MA-AO SUGAR CENTRAL CO., INC., petitioner, vs. FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ, respondent.

G.R. No. L-28478 | 1974-08-23

D E C I S I O N

MAKALINTAL, J:

The only issue in this appeal by certiorari is whether the herein petitioner Ma-ao Sugar Central Co., Inc. was correctly adjudged by the Court of Appeals (CA-G.R. No. 25388-R) to pay the sum of P10,000.00 as attorney's fees and expenses of litigation to respondent Francisco Rodriguez.

The following findings in the decision under review form the background of the issue:

"There is no question that since 1920, plaintiff (Francisco Rodriguez), ** who is a sugar planter in Ma-ao and La Carlota, Negros Occidental, had been milling his sugar cane with the sugar central of the defendant (Ma-ao Sugar Central,...