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National Housing Authority vs. Otilio Abaya, et al.

THE NATIONAL HOUSING AUTHORITY, petitioner, vs. HONORABLE OTILIO ABAYAP residing Judge, Regional Trial Court, National Region, Branch CLIV (154) and UNION CHEMICALS, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. L-64112 | 1984-05-21

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J.:

This petition for certiorari and mandamus was filed by the National Housing Authority against an order of respondent Judge Otilio Abaya of the National Capital Region with the Union Chemicals, Inc. as private respondent. The order complained of excluded from an expropriation proceeding certain areas to "be devoted exclusively to the fulfillment by Union Chemicals of its contractual obligation to its employees in accordance with the approval by the Human Settlement Regulatory Commission, Ministry of Human Settlement." 1 Petitioner posed the issue thus: "May a landowner whose properties are the subject of...