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EPG Construction Co. vs. Virgilar

EPG CONSTRUCTION CO., CIPER ELECTRICAL & ENGINEERING, SEPTA CONSTRUCTION CO., PHIL. PLUMBING CO., HOME CONSTRUCTION INC., WORLD BUILDERS CO., GLASS WORLD INC., PERFORMANCE BUILDERS DEV'T. CO., DE LEON-ARANETA CONST. CO., J.D. MACAPAGAL CONST. CO., All represented by their Atty. IN FACT, MARCELO D, FORONDA, petitioners, vs. HON. GREGORIO R. VIGILAR, In His Capacity as Secretary of Public Works and Highways, respondent.

G.R. No. 131544 | 2001-03-16

D E C I S I O N 

BUENA, J.: 

Sought to be reversed in the instant Petition for Certiorari is the Decision, dated 07 November 1997, of the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City, Branch 226, in Civil Case No. Q-96-29243,[1] dismissing the Petition for Mandamus filed by herein petitioners against herein respondent Hon. Gregorio Vigilar, in his capacity as Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). 

The tapestry of facts unfurls. 

In 1983, the Ministry of Human Settlement, through the BLISS Development Corporation, initiated a housing project on a government property along the east bank of the Manggahan...