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Samson, et al. vs. City Mayor of Bacolod City, et al.

ELISA SAMSON and ANGEL GAVILAN, plaintiffs-appellees, vs. THE HONORABLE CITY MAYOR OF BACOLOD CITY and THE HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL OF BACOLOD CITY, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-28745 | 1974-10-23

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

There would have been no necessity for an appeal from a decision of November 22, 1967, nullifying an amendatory ordinance 1 of the City of Bacolod making it unlawful for any proprietor, lessee, or operator of an amusement place to admit two or more persons with only one admission ticket, had the lower court accorded respect to two decisions from this Tribunal promulgated in July of that year, Ermita-Malate Hotel and Motel Operators Association v. City Mayor 2 and Ormoc Sugar Co. v. Municipal Board of Ormoc City. 3 The former made clear that the burden of demonstrating the alleged nullity of an ordinance rests...