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Benguet Consolidated, Inc. vs. Rep. Of the Phil.

BENGUET CONSOLIDATED, INC., (now Benguet Corporation), petitioners, vs. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondent.

G.R. No. 71412 | 1986-08-13

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J:

This is a petition to review the decision of the Intermediate Appellate Court in an expropriation case, insofar as the decision affects the petitioner.

On June 18, 1958, the Republic of the Philippines filed with the then Court of First Instance of Benguet and Baguio a complaint for expropriation against ten (10) defendants, among them Benguet Consolidated, Inc. The Republic stated that it needed the property for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a permanent site for the Philippine Military Academy, a training institution for officers in the Armed Forces of the Philippines, under the direct...