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Martiniano P. Vivo vs. Gaudencio Cloribel

HON. MARTINIANO P. VIVO, as (Acting) Commissioner of Immigration, petitioner, vs. HON. GAUDENCIO CLORIBEL, as Judge of the Court of First Instance of Manila, Branch VI, CHUA PIC LUAN, UY KOC SIONG and UY TIAN SIONG, respondents.

G.R. No. L-25411 | 1968-10-26

D E C I S I O N 


REYES, J.B.L., J.: 

This is another case involving Chinese nationals who came to the Philippines allegedly for a visit but thereafter refuse to leave. And one where the improvident issuance of an ex-parte preliminary injunction, followed by judicial inaction, actually extended the stay of aliens beyond the period authorized by law, and even beyond what the visitors had asked for. 

The private respondents herein, Chua Pic Luan, a Chinese mother, and her minor children, Uy Koc Siong and Uy Tian Siong, arrived from Hongkong and were admitted in the Philippines as temporary visitors on 16 October 1960, with an...