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Republic Of The Phil. vs. Jose C. Tayengco, Et Al.

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellant, vs. JOSE C. TAYENGCO and ALICIA SCHMID-ECHOLS, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-23766 | 1967-04-27

D E C I S I O N 


REYES, J.B.L., J.: 

On 17 April 1957, the plaintiff-appellant Republic of the Philippines filed a complaint in the Court of First Instance of Iloilo (docketed therein as its Civil Case No. 4368) for the expropriation of certain parcels of land needed for the widening and improvement of the Iloilo South Road. Simultaneously, it took possession of the properties involved. The defendants-appellees Jose C. Tayengco and Alicia Schmid Echols, who owned the lands, did not contest the plaintiff's right to expropriate, but objected to the amount of compensation which they contended should be P60.00 instead of P17.00 per...