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Paulino Ochoa Vs. Mayor Of Pasay City, Et Al.099 Phil 781

PAULINO OCHOA, ET AL., petitioners-appellants, vs. THE MAYOR AND TREASURER OF PASAY CITY, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-9171 | 1956-08-27

D E C I S I O N



CONCEPCION, J.:

Petitioners Paulino Ochoa, et al., are admittedly bona fide pork vendors and stall holders in the public market of Pasay City. They were, and are being, required to pay, for their swines or hogs slaughtered in the public abattoir of Pasay, the fee of P0.05 per kilo prescribed, for the slaughtering "of large cattle", in Ordinance No. 3, series of 1945 of said City. Section 1 of said ordinance provides:

"That all owners or incharge of every large cattle slaughtered within the Public Slaughterhouse must pay the slaughter fee of FIVE (P0.05) centavos per kilo of the parts of the carcass originally...