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Teodoro Palang, Et Al. Vs. Joaquin Clavano, Et Al. 025 Phil 348

TEODORO PALANG, ET AL., plaintiffs-appellees, vs. JOAQUIN CLAVANO ET AL., defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. 8059 | 1913-09-24

D E C I S I O N


ARELLANO, C.J.:

This suit involves a piece of urban land, intended for building purposes, with a frontage of 6 brazas and a depth of 7, which in 1904 was occupied by a frame house belonging to the defendant. This land was entirely expropriated for the widening of a street in the city of Cebu, the expropriation being in the nature of an exchange, that is, the city gave the defendant another lot or parcel of land equivalent to the condemned property, on which was rebuilt, with somewhat larger dimensions, the house he had had on the expropriated land. In all this matter the committee on street widening, which exercised its...