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Damaso Alipio, Et Al. Vs. Jose V. Rodriguez, Et Al. 119 Phil. 59

DAMASO ALIPIO, GREGORIO ABABON, ALEJANDRO SABAL, PEDRO CABINGATAN, FRANCISCO ABASTAS, MACARIO PASOMA, MARIANO TABASA, ROBERTO CABINGATAN, TEODORO ABASTAS, DIONISIO PACA?A, SUSANO NACUA, VICTORIANO FERNANDEZ, CANDIDO ABELLA, EUGENIO CABORNAY, FAUSTINO ATILLO, APOLINARIO PACA?A, and CARLOS PARDILAN, petitioners-appellants, vs. JOSE V. RODRIGUEZ, as City Mayor, CANDELARIO ALMENDRAS, as Supervising Watermaster of Osme?a Waterworks System, FRANCISCO MENDIOLA, as Acting City Treasurer, RESTITUTO CANTOS, as City Auditor and the MUNICIPAL BOARD, all of the City of Cebu, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-17336 | 1963-12-26

D E C I S I O N


MAKALINTAL, J.:

Petitioners have taken this appeal from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Cebu dismissing their petition for mandamus to compel respondents or their successors in office to reinstate them to their positions in the office of Osmeña Waterworks System, Cebu City; and to pay their back salaries from the date of their separation, plus moral damages and costs. The Court of Appeals, to which the case was originally elevated, certified it to this Court for the reason that only questions of law are involved.
The essential facts are not disputed. Appellants were laborers in the Osmeña...