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Francisco Herrera vs. Petrophil Corp.

FRANCISCO HERRERA, plaintiff-appellant, vs. PETROPHIL CORPORATION, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-48349 | 1986-12-29

D E C I S I O N


CRUZ, J:

This is an appeal by the plaintiff-appellant from a decision rendered by the then Court of First Instance of Rizal on a pure question of law. 1

The judgment appealed from was rendered on the pleadings, the parties having agreed during the pretrial conference on the factual antecedents.

The facts are as follows:

On December 5, 1969, the plaintiff-appellant and ESSO Standard Eastern, Inc., (later substituted by Petrophil Corporation) entered into a "Lease Agreement" whereby the former leased to the latter a portion of his property for a period of twenty (20) years from said date, subject inter alia to the...