Key legal question
Whether the former owners retained standing to claim expropriation compensation after selling the property.
Extracted holding
Yes. The claim was valid because the expropriation proceeding had been initiated by the compensation request while they still owned the land, and the purchasers renounced any compensation claim.
Extracted reasoning
In this special expropriation context, the introductory act was the 1992 compensation request, not the later approach to the federal commission. Since the respondents were owners at that time and later purchasers waived any indemnity, the sale did not deprive them of standing.