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Olongapo Electric Light & Power Corp. vs NPC etal.

OLONGAPO ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER CORPORATION, plaintiff appellant, vs. NATIONAL POWER CORPORATION and THE MUNICIPALITY OF OLONGAPO, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-24912 | 1987-04-09

D E C I S I O N


PADILLA, J.:

This is an appeal from the decision of the then Court of First Instance of Manila, which dismissed the complaint filed in Civil Case No. 52992 of said court.

The facts of the case are, in brief, as follows:

On 27 September 1959, the Federal Government of the United States of America returned to the Republic of the Philippines the possession of what was then known as the Community of Olongapo, a portion of the United States Naval Base at Subic Bay, in the province of Zambales; and on 7 December 1959, the President of the Philippines, by Executive Order No. 366, converted the area into an independent...