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Manuel Suarez vs. Municipality Of Naujan, Oriental Mindoro

MANUEL SUAREZ, plaintiff-appellant, vs. THE MUNICIPALITY OF NAUJAN, ORIENTAL MINDORO and MANUEL MARCOS, the mayor thereof; THE MUNICIPALITY OF POLA, same province and PEDRO ASERON, the mayor thereof , defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-22282 | 1966-11-21

D E C I S I O N 


REYES, J.B.L., J.: 

Direct appeal, on pure question of law, from an order of the Court of First Instance of Manila, in its Civil Case No. 54069, sustaining defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiff's complaint for declaratory relief, on the ground of res judicata, and from a later order of the same court denying plaintiff's motion to reconsider said order of dismissal. 

The antecedent facts before the filing of the present case are: 

On 25 August 1952, herein plaintiff Manuel Suarez, as petitioner, filed a prohibition case with preliminary injunction against respondents municipality of Naujan, province of...