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[5/9] Federation of Free Farmers, et al. Vs. CA, et al.

[5/9] FEDERATION OF FREE FARMERS, MELQUIADES BETIOS, CRESENCIANO FERNANDEZ, SANCHO PEREZ and AGATON POSA, petitioners, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, VICTORIAS MILLING COMPANY, INC., VICTORIAS MILL DISTRICT PLANTERS' ASSOCIATION, INC., and, ALL SUGARCANE PLANTERS OF SUGARCANE PLANTATIONS SITUATED IN THE VICTORIAS MILLING DISTRICT, WHO HAVE AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER, SINCE JUNE 22, 1952, MILLED THEIR SUGARCANE IN THE MILL OF VICTORIAS MILLING COMPANY, INC., respondents.

G.R. No. L-41161 | 1981-09-10

VII

The appellate court resolved the three issues it enumerated as follows:

Regarding the first issue, the Court held:

"We agree that millers and planters may indeed enter into written milling agreements stipulating participations different from those prescribed in Section 1 of the Sugar Act. This conclusion is justified by the language of Section 1 itself which declares that -

'In the absence of written milling agreements between the majority of the planters and the millers of sugarcane in any milling district in the Philippines, the unrefined sugar produced in that district . . . shall be divided between them.'

in the proportions...