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Sixto Celestino Vs. Auditor General Of The Phil., Et Al. 105 Phil 896

SIXTO CELESTINO, petitioner-appellant, vs. AUDITOR GENERAL OF THE PHILIPPINES, and THE CHIEF OF STAFF, ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-12183 | 1959-05-29

D E C I S I O N


MONTEMAYOR, J.:

This is an appeal from the decision of the Auditor General denying the claim of petitioner for the payment of 7,926 boxes of ordnance items and 20 radial engines withdrawn by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) from Ordnance Sub-Depot No. 6, located at Isaac Peral, Manila.

Under the Roxaz-Vegelback Agreement signed in Manila on September 11, 1946, and approved by the Philippine Government by virtue of Republic Act No. 33, vast amounts of property, especially war materials, which had been declared suplus to the needs of the Government of the United States of America and which were found necessary...