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Talisay-Silay Milling Co., Inc vs. CFI of Negros Occidental, et al.

TALISAY-SILAY MILLING CO., INC., petitioner, vs. COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, DR. TRINO MONTINOLA, ESTATE OF BERNARDINO (RODOLFO) JALANDONI, SALVADOR LACSON, ET AL., respondents.

G.R. No. L-33423 | 1971-12-22

D E C I S I O N


CASTRO, J:

At about the end of the sugar crop year 1969-1970, the petitioner Talisay-Silay Milling Co., Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the Central) faced the prospect of a severe cut-off, in railway connections, from the sugarcane plantations surrounding its mill. The respondents Trino Montinola, Estate of Bernardino Jalandoni and about 39 others (hereinafter referred to as the respondent landowners) had refused to extend the 50-year contractual right of way granted to the Central's railway complex in the Talisay-Silay mill district and outlying areas. In order to keep its railway lines open, the Central obtained...