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This document is a court decision regarding payment of transcript fees to court stenographers by the National Coconut Corporation. The court found that:
1) The National Coconut Corporation is not a government entity exempt from paying transcript fees under Rule 130, as it has a separate corporate personality from the government.
2) The payments already made by the National Coconut Corporation to the stenographers for transcript fees are valid, as the corporation agreed to and paid the fees, rather than objecting.
3) The stenographers do not need to refund any transcript fees received from the National Coconut Corporation.
This document is a court decision regarding payment of transcript fees to court stenographers by the National Coconut Corporation. The court found that:
1) The National Coconut Corporation is not a government entity exempt from paying transcript fees under Rule 130, as it has a separate corporate personality from the government.
2) The payments already made by the National Coconut Corporation to the stenographers for transcript fees are valid, as the corporation agreed to and paid the fees, rather than objecting.
3) The stenographers do not need to refund any transcript fees received from the National Coconut Corporation.
This document is a court decision regarding payment of transcript fees to court stenographers by the National Coconut Corporation. The court found that:
1) The National Coconut Corporation is not a government entity exempt from paying transcript fees under Rule 130, as it has a separate corporate personality from the government.
2) The payments already made by the National Coconut Corporation to the stenographers for transcript fees are valid, as the corporation agreed to and paid the fees, rather than objecting.
3) The stenographers do not need to refund any transcript fees received from the National Coconut Corporation.
LEOPOLDO T. BACANI and MATEO A. MATOTO , plaintiffs-appellees,
vs . NATIONAL COCONUT CORPORATION, ET AL., defendants, NATIONAL COCONUT CORPORATION and BOARD OF LIQUIDATORS, LIQUIDATORS defendants-appellants.
Valentin C. Gutierrez for appellees.
First Corporate Counsel Simeon M. Gopengco and Lorenzo Mosqueda for appellants National Coconut Corporation and Board of Liquidators. Solicitor General Ambrosio Padilla and Solicitor Jorge R. Coquia for appellants.
SYLLABUS
1. POLITICAL LAW; TERM "GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE
PHILIPPINES" CONSTRUED. — The term "Government of the Republic of the Philippines" used in section 2 of the Revised Administrative Code refers to that government entity through which functions of the government are exercised as an attribute of sovereignty, and in this are included those arms through which political authority is made effective whether they be provincial, municipal or other form of local government. These are what we call municipal corporations. They do not include government entities which are given a corporate personality separate and distinct from the government and which are governed by the Corporation Law, such as the National Coconut Corporation. Their powers, duties and liabilities have to determined in the light of that law and of their corporate charters. They do not therefore come within the exemption clause prescribed in section 16, Rule 130 of our Rules of Court. 2. STENOGRAPHERS; TRANSCRIPT FEES; PAYMENT OF FEES BEYOND THE LIMIT PRESCRIBED BY THE RULES OF COURT, VALID. — It is true that in section 8, Rule 130, stenographers may only charge as fees P0.30 for each page of transcript of not less than 200 words before the appeal is taken and P0.15 for each page after filing of the appeal, but where, as in the case at bar, the party has agreed and in fact has paid P1 per page for the services rendered by the stenographers and has not raised any objection to the amount paid until its propriety was disputed by the Auditor General, the payment of the fees became contractual and as such is valid even if it goes beyond the limit prescribed by the Rules of Court.
DECISION
BAUTISTA ANGELO , J : p
Plaintiffs herein are court stenographers assigned in Branch VI of the Court of