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Quirina Pachoco Vs. Agripina Tumangday

QUIRINA PACHOCO, petitioner and appellant, vs. AGRIPINA TUMANGDAY and HIGINO A. FERNANDO, Justice of the Peace of Patnongon, Antique, respondents and appellees.

G.R. No. L-14500 | 1960-05-25

D E C I S I O N


BENGZON, J.:

Appeal from the order of the Antique court of first instance denying a petition for certiorari and prohibition.
It appears that: on March 31, 1958, in the justice of the peace court of Patnongon, same province, Quirina Pachoco, pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of slight physical injuries she had inflicted on Agripina Tumangday, and was accordingly required to pay a fine plus the costs; she interposed no appeal; then on May 5, 1958, Agripina Tumangday filed a civil action in the same justice of the peace court, to recover damages from Quirina Pachoco for the identical physical injuries that had given...