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Municipality of La Carlota vs. SPS. Baltazar, et al

MUNICIPALITY OF LA CARLOTA, petitioner, vs. THE SPOUSES FELICIDAD BALTAZAR AND VICENTE GAN, respondents.

G.R. No. L-30138 | 1972-05-30

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

It is not a unique situation that confronts the Court. It had happened in the past, and there is no assurance that it will not occur again in the future, that a municipal corporation did, within the meaning of the constitutional provision on eminent domain, 1 take private property without paying the just compensation, the requisite condemnation proceedings not even having been instituted. This Court however, in an appropriate suit, has invariably seen to it that there be compliance with what the Constitution requires, In such a case, the crucial question is as of what date the value of the property in...