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U. Banez Electric Light Co. Vs. Abra Electric Coop., Inc., et al.

U. BANEZ ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY (UBELCO), plaintiff-appellant, vs. ABRA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC. (ABRECO) AND/OR JEREMIAS ZAPATA, NATIONAL POWER CORP. (NPC) AND NATIONAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION (NEA), defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-59480 | 1982-12-08

D E C I S I O N 


PLANA, J.: 

Appeal from the dismissal of the complaint in Civil Case No. 718 of the Court of First Instance of Abra for failure to state a cause of action. The appeal had originally been brought to the Court of Appeals but was subsequently certified to this Court on the ground that it raises purely questions of law. 

It appears that in June 1973, UBELCO filed a complaint in the court a quo alleging that it is the holder of a Congressional franchise for electric and power system in the Municipality of Bangued, Province of Abra, granted under Republic Act No. 4143; that under the said Act, when defendant NPC...