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Cornelio Antiquera Vs. Sotero Baluyot 091 Phil 213

CORNELIO ANTIQUERA, plaintiff-appellant, vs. HON. SOTERO BALUYOT, Secretary of the Interior, HON. MANUEL DE LA FUENTE, Mayor of the City of Manila, and MACARIO M. OFILADA, Sheriff of the City of Manila, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-3318 | 1952-05-05

D E C I S I O N


PARAS, C.J.:

The facts of this case are stated by the Court of First Instance of Manila in the decision appealed from, as follows: "In its plan for reorganization of the different departments and offices of the city government, the committee on reorganization created by the Municipal Board of the City of Manila recommended the abolition of the position of assistant chief of a division. The defendant Sheriff having been requested by the defendant Mayor to give his comment on such a recommendation, informed said defendant Mayor on June 6, 1947 that he found it well founded insofar as it affected his office. As a...