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Tiu Chun Hai, Et Al. Vs. Commissioner Of Immigration, Et Al. 104 Phil 949

TIU CHUN HAI and GO TAM, petitioners-appellees, vs. THE COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION and THE DIRECTOR, NATIONAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, respondents-appellants.

G.R. No. L-10009 | 1958-12-22

D E C I S I O N


LABRADOR, J.:

Appeal from a decision of the Court of First Instance of Manila, in Civil Case No. 27885, entitled "Tiu Chun Hai, et al., petitioners vs. Commissioner of Immigration, et al., respondents," granting the petition for a writ of habeas corpus and ordering the immediate release of the petitioners from confinement.

Petitioners are citizens of the Republic of China who have overstayed their temporary visitor's permit in the Philippines. Go Tam was admitted as a temporary visitor in the Bureau of Immigration in the year 1947, while Tiu Chun Hai, on the 23rd of December, 1949. They had filed bonds for their stay,...