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Tanpingco vs IAC, 207 SCRA 652

ESPIRIDION TANPINGCO, petitioner, vs. INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, and BENEDICTO HORCA, SR., respondents.

G.R. No. 76225 | 1992-03-31

D E C I S I O N 


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.: 

May a tenanted parcel of land be donated by the landowner so that it can be the site of a public high school without securing the consent of the tenant-lessee? Who bears the responsibility of paying disturbance compensation? These are the issues raised in this case. 

On May 10, 1985, a complaint for payment of disturbance compensation with damages was filed by petitioner Espiridion Tenpingco against respondent Benedicto Horca, Sr. with the Regional Trial Court of Palo, Leyte. 

It is alleged in the complaint that the petitioner is the tenant-lessee in the respondent's parcel of...