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RP vs. CA, et al.

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner, vs. THE HONORABLE COURT OF APPEALS, HEIRS OF MARIA ROSALES: BALTAZAR AZURA, BASILIO AZURA, AMBROSIO AZURA and LUCILA AZURA ALFARO, AGAPITO SATUR; JESUS NATONTON HEIRS OF BRAULIO SEVILLA; MARIA EVANOSO DE SEVILLA, AMPIL SEVILLA, JALADINO SEVILLA, ILADIO SEVILLA, ALEJANDRINA SEVILLA, MONINO SEVILLA, NORA SEVILLA, LITA SEVILLA, ELSA SEVILLA, MYRNA SEVILLA, PERLA SEVILLA, and LINDA SEVILLA; JUSTO DUMANON; GRACIANO PIENCENAVES; HEIRS OF RAYMUNDO CUENCA: NARCISA PIA DE CUENCA, DOMELINA CUENCA LUVITE, GLORIFICACION C. JAYNA, CONRADO CUENCA, MILAGROS CUENCA, RAYMUNDO CUENCA, JR., JUANITA CUENCA and NIMPA C. PLAZA; JUANA MADELO; LOURDES AQUIO; NATIVIDAD BALANON, FELIX OLAN, ET AL.; HEIRS OF SESINANDO GUERRERO and RAMONA BUSA (Husband and Wife); LORENZO GUERRERO, ELISEO GUERRERO, CIPRIANA C. ZOZOBRADO, LEONARDO JOSUE, EPIMACO JOSUE, BIENVENIDO JOSUE, SIMEON DUMANON, RAMON SANCHEZ, SALUD SANCHEZ, CANDELARIA SANCHEZ, PILAR SANCHEZ, TERESITA SANCHEZ, CARMEN SANCHEZ, EUGENIA BUSA, PETRA DURBAN, and PAZ DURBAN; JOSE A. MORDENO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-44222 | 1987-09-30

D E C I S I O N

SARMIENTO, J p:

To construct the now Bancasi Airport, an action for Eminent Domain covering several parcels of land situated in the Barrio of Bancasi, City of Butuan was filed on December 16, 1970 by the herein petitioner, Republic of the Philippines, against the herein private respondents. The then Court of First Instance 1 of Butuan City where the case was tried rendered a decision with the following dispositive portion:

IN LIGHT OF ALL THE FOREGOING, the Court hereby renders judgment as follows:

1. Ordering the plaintiff to pay to the defendants the sums corresponding to the areas of their respective lands, computed...