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NATIONAL POWER CORPORATION, PETITIONER, VS. SOCORRO T. POSADA, RENATO BUENO, ALICE BALIN, ADRIAN TABLIZO, TEOFILO TABLIZO, AND LYDIA T. OLIVO, SUBSTITUTED BY HER HEIRS, ALFREDO M. OLIVO, ALICIA O. SALAZAR, ANITA O. ORDONO, ANGELITA O. LIM, AND ADELFA O. ESPINAS, RESPONDENTS.

NATIONAL POWER CORPORATION, PETITIONER, VS. SOCORRO T. POSADA, RENATO BUENO, ALICE BALIN, ADRIAN TABLIZO, TEOFILO TABLIZO, AND LYDIA T. OLIVO, SUBSTITUTED BY HER HEIRS, ALFREDO M. OLIVO, ALICIA O. SALAZAR, ANITA O. ORDONO, ANGELITA O. LIM, AND ADELFA O. ESPINAS, RESPONDENTS.

G.R. No. 191945 | 2015-03-11


SECOND DIVISION

DECISION

LEONEN, J.:

When the taking of private property is no longer for a public purpose, the expropriation complaint should be dismissed by the trial court. The case will proceed only if the trial court's order of expropriation became final and executory and the expropriation causes prejudice to the property owner.
 
Before this court is a Motion[1] filed by the National Power Corporation seeking to withdraw its Petition for Review[2] dated June 4, 2010.  The Petition sought to reverse the Decision[3] of the Court of Appeals dated August 7, 2009, which affirmed the trial court's Decision recalling the Writ...