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SAGRADA ORDEN VS NACOCO G.R. NO.

L-3756 JUNE 30, 1952 Defendant contests the rental claims on the defense that it occupied the property in good
faith and under no obligation to pay rentals.

ISSUE: Whether or not the defendant is obliged to pay rentals to the plaintiff
FACTS:

The land in question belongs to plaintiff Sagrada Orden in whose name the title was
registered before the war HELD: No. Nacoco is not liable to pay rentals prior the judgment. If defendant-appellant is
liable at all, its obligations, must arise from any of the four sources of obligations, namley,
law, contract or quasi-contract, crime, or negligence. (Article 1089, Spanish Civil Code.)
Defendant-appellant is not guilty of any offense at all, because it entered the premises and
On January 4, 1943, during the Japanese military occupation, the land was acquired by a
occupied it with the permission of the entity which had the legal control and administration
Japanese corporation by the name of Taiwan Tekkosho
thereof, the Allien Property Administration. Neither was there any negligence on its part.

After liberation on April 4, 1946, the Alien Property Custodian of the United States of America
took possession, control, and custody of the property pursuant to the Trading with the Enemy
Act

The property was occupied by the Copra Export Management Company under a custodian
agreement with US Alien Property Custodian. When it vacated the property, it was occupied
by defendant National Coconut Corporation

The plaintiff made claim to the said property before the Alien Property Custodian. Alien
Property Custodian denied such claim

It bought an action in court which resulted to the cancellation of the title issued in the name
of Taiwan Tekkosho which was executed under threats, duress, and intimidation; reissuance
of the title in favor of the plaintiff; cancellation of the claims, rights, title, interest of the Alien
property Custodian; and occupant National Coconut Corporations ejection from the property.
A right was also vested to the plaintiff to recover from the defendants rentals for its
occupation of the land from the date it vacated.

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