Manila, June 24 -- The Supreme Court (SC) has directed the Valenzuela City government to pay the full amount of PHP6,000 per square meter instead of only PHP400 to a couple whose 1,203-square meter lot was expropriated by the city nine years ago for the construction of a public school building.
In a resolution made available to the public recently, the SC's third division upheld the Court of Appeals (CA) which in turn upheld the 2011 ruling of the regional trial court on the payment of just compensation at PHP6,000 per square meter or a total of PHP7.2 million to spouses Silvino Abacan and Remedios Lazaro Abacan. The rulings by the high court turns down the appeal filed by the city government.
Valenzuela City in 2009 offered to purchase t...