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The heirs of a widow who contributed 32 hectares to the Department of Health (DOH) in 1968 filed a suit against the government, which was denied by the Supreme Court.

The SC Second Division denied the estate of Susano Rodriguez’s petition for review, upholding the Court of Appeals’ decision in favor of the DOH.

In Pili, Camarines Sur, the site was intended for the development of a mental institution.

The donor’s estate filed a revocation complaint in 2008, alleging that the government had breached the terms of the 1968 donation, which, among other things, prohibits the government from disposing of or otherwise alienating the donated property.

The estate argued that the government’s failure to prosecute a civil action against informal settlers who had occupied significant swaths of the donated land should be grounds for automatic revocation under the conditional donation’s provisions.

Only five hectares of the 32 hectares were used by the Department of Health for the mental facility.

The remaining 27 hectares, according to the heirs, should be returned to them.

The property had been occupied by the informal settlers before the donation, according to the SC.

Even after the courts granted a favorable verdict to the government, the administration filed an eviction action against the informal settlers in 1971 but did not carry out the eviction.

“The government’s refusal to move for the execution of the judgment (ejecting the informal settlers) is not akin to relinquishment of its title over the abovementioned portion of the donated property,” the Supreme Court declared in a June 2 verdict in favor of the donation.

“By failing to move for the execution of the civil case, the government did not commit any infringement that would constitute a disposition or conveyance of its right of ownership over the portion of the donated property in favor of the informal settlers,” the Supreme Court said.

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