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Francisco A. Tan vs. Pedro M. Gimenez

FRANCISCO A. TAN, petitioner, vs. PEDRO M. GlMENEZ, as Auditor General, and MARTIN AGUILAR, JR., as Acting Secretary of Education, respondents.

G.R. No. L-12525 | 1960-02-19

D E C I S I O N


PADILLA, J.:

This is a petition for review of the decision of the Auditor General denying the former's claim for back salaries.

The petitioner was head teacher in Habuhab barrio school, Caibiran, Leyte, with P140 monthly salary or P1680 annually. In a complaint filed with the Bureau of Civil Service, he was charged with gross misconduct for an immoral act committed in the evening of 4 June 1948 (administrative case No. R-2533). On 14 June 1949 the Commissioner of Civil Service found him guilty as charged and required him "to resign from the service, with prejudice to reinstatement in the teaching service, effective on...