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Lacuesta, Cosme vs. Barangay Casabaan, et al.

COSME LACUESTA, plaintiff-appellant, vs. BARANGAY CASABAAN, MUNICIPALITY OF CABANGAN, PROVINCE OF ZAMBALES, and TEOFILO RONQUILLO, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-56540 | 1984-10-31

D E C I S I O N


MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:

This is an appeal certified to us by the then Court of Appeals as involving a pure question of law.

Plaintiff-appellant, Cosme Lacuesta, was the agricultural lessee of a landholding consisting of 1.6610 hectares, situated in Barangay Casabaan, Cabangan, Zambales. He was devoting a 5,000 square meter portion thereof to the planting of palay.

By virtue of expropriation proceedings against the landowners instituted by defendant-appellee, Barangay Casabaan (the Barangay, for short), before the Court of First Instance of Zambales (the Expropriation Case), the said Barangay was placed in possession of...