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Municipality of San Luis vs. Ventura, et al

THE MUNICIPALITY OF SAN LUIS, BATANGAS, plaintiff-appellant, vs. HONORIO VENTURA, Secretary of the Interior, and MODESTO CASTILLO, Provincial Governor of Batangas, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. 34535 | 1931-12-07

D E C I S I O N


VILLAMOR, J:

On November 27, 1920, the municipal council of San Luis, Batangas, enacted ordinance No. 7, series of 1920, regulating and classifying the fisheries within the waters of the said municipality. Thereafter, on December 10, 1925, it enacted ordinance No. 5, series of 1925, classifying and dividing the municipal waters into lots for purposes of fishery. With a view to exempting from public auctions the fisheries which had been declared to belong to the first class (baclad), and to let them by means of license, the council enacted ordinance No. 2 on July 26, 1926, series of the same year. Later, however, in order...