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Same; Same; Same; The third requisite had not been met since
respondent had actually brought about the condition; Case at bar.·
The evidence is, therefore, persuasively to the effect that the private
respondent had been granted an adequate access to the public
highway (Parada Road) through the adjacent estate of Epifania Dila
even as he was trying to negotiate a satisfactory agreement with
petitioner Francisco for another passageway through the latterÊs
property. If at the time he filed suit against the petitioner, such
access (through the property of Epifania Dila) could no longer be
used, it was because he himself had closed it off by erecting a stone
wall on his lot at the point where the passageway began for no
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* FIRST DIVISION.
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NARVASA, J.:
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1 Exh. 8.
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2 Exh. 5.
3 Exh. 9.
4 Exhs. 3, 5, and A.
5 Exh. 10.
6 Exhs. B, 13-A. N.B. This sale by the Eugenios to Ramos is now
involved in CAR Case No. 959 brought by an alleged tenant, Santos
Salazar, who claims a right of redemption under the Land Reform Code
(Exh. 11).
7 TSN, July 3, 1974, pp. 11-12; TSN, June 26, 1974, pp. 11-17.
530
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8 TSN, June 26, 1974, pp. 19-20; see also, Exhs. 1, 2 and 3.
9 TSN, June 26, 1974, pp. 20-21; TSN, July 3, 1974, pp. 14-15.
10 TSN, June 26, 1974, pp. 21, 27; TSN, July 3, 1974, pp. 14-15, 20-21,
40.
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In view of the foregoing premises: (1) the road right of way prayed
for by plaintiff over defendantÊs land, Exhibit ÂA-1Ê is hereby
granted, plaintiff shall pay defendant the amount of Twenty Pesos
(P20.00) per square meter as indemnity or a total of Three Hundred
Fifty Pesos (P350.00) considering that the area of Exhibit ÂA-1Ê is
17.5 square meters; (2) the writ for a permanent mandatory
injunction is likewise granted and defendant is consequently
directed to remove immediately the adobe fence along the road right
of way as fixed by this Court and to refrain from obstructing said
passage in any manner whatsoever, upon payment by the plaintiff
of the sum of Three Hundred Fifty Pesos to the defendant, through
this court; (3) upon the defendantÊs failure to do so, the Sheriff is
hereby directed to immediately remove said obstructions at
defendantÊs expenses; (4) let a copy of the decision be served upon
the Register of Deeds of Bulacan for proper annotation of the road
right of way on defendantÊs title, Transfer Certificate of Title over
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14 Id., p. 38.
15 Id., p. 40. Francisco prayed for the dismissal of the complaint with
treble costs against plaintiff Ramos; and, on his counterclaim, that
Ramos be sentenced to pay moral damages of P15,000.00, nominal
damages of P5,000.00 and exemplary damages of P5,000.00, plus
attorneyÊs fees of P4,000.00, and that he be granted such other relief as
might be just and equitable in the premises.
16 Record on Appeal, p. 47.
17 Id., p. 93.
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18 The appeal was docketed as CA-G.R. No. 60968. N.B. Before the
record on appeal was sent up to the Court of Appeals, however, Francisco
filed a petition for certiorari and mandamus with said Court of Appeals,
docketed as CA-G.R. No. SP-04488-R, chiefly impugning the mandatory
injunction issued and ordered enforced by the Trial Court, as well as the
order requiring him to amend his record on appeal by incorporating
certain pleadings therein. The petition was dismissed by the Court of
Appeals by judgment dated February 19, 1976. FranciscoÊs petition for
review on certiorariof that decision, docketed in this Court as G.R. No. L-
43808, was denied for lack of merit, by Resolution of this CourtÊs First
Division dated June 16, 1976, and his motion for reconsideration, denied
with finality by Resolution dated July 21, 1976.
19 Rollo, pp. 28 et seq.
20 Id., p. 50.
21 PetitionerÊs Memorandum, p. 6.
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against Francisco.
In Bacolod-Murcia
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Milling Co., Inc. v. Capital Subdivision,
Inc., this Court held that a compulsory easement of way
cannot be obtained without the presence of four (4)
requisites provided for in Articles 649 and 650 of the Civil
Code, which the owner of the dominant tenement must
establish, to wit:
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22 17 SCRA 731, 735-736; see also Angela Estate, Inc. v. CFI of Negros
Occidental, 24 SCRA 500.
23 Testimony of Anastacio Z. Canlas, TSN June 18, 1974, pp. 5-10;
Exhibit 3.
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26 Ramos vs. Gatchalian Realty, Inc., et al., 154 SCRA 703, 711-712.
27 See Tolentino, Civil Code of the Philippines, Vol. II, 2nd ed., 1972, p.
371.
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28 Rollo, p. 33.
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