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Jose F. Escano, et al. vs. Court of Appeals, et al.

JOSE F. ESCAO, JESUS F. ESCANO, VICENTA F. ESCA?O, PILAR ESCANO-BERNAD, SAMUEL F. ESCANO, ANA MA. N. ILANO, MARIA LOURDES E. NOEL, PILAR VICTORIA E. NOEL and GABRIEL NOEL, for himself and the minor heirs of his deceased wife LOURDES ESCANO, petitioners-appellants, vs. COURT OF APPEALS and REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondent-appellees.

G.R. No. L-47207 | 1980-09-25

D E C I S I O N 


AQUINO, J.: 

The petitioners complain about the judgment of the Court of Appeals, engrafting conditions on their repurchase of ten lots, which were expropriated to form part of the Lahug Airport in Cebu City, as well as the failure of the Appellate Court to grant them compensation for the use of the lots by the Civil Aeronatics Administration (CAA) from the time that they tendered the redemption price (Escaño vs. Republic of the Philippines, CA-G.R. No. 57188-R, March 17, 1977). 

In 1964, those ten lots with a total area of 10,639 square meters were sold for P31,977 by Mamerto Escaño, Inc. to the Republic for...