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Porfirio Comia, Et Al. vs. Nicanor P. Nicolas, Et Al.

PORFIRIO COMIA and CHIEF OF POLICE ANTONIO S. GABA SR., petitioners, vs. HON. JUDGE NICANOR P. NICOLAS in his capacity as JUDGE CFI OF ORIENTAL MINDORO (CALAPAN BRANCH); THE PROVINCIAL SHERIFF and/or HIS DEPUTIES, CALAPAN, ORIENTAL MINDORO, and ESTANISLAO GARACHICO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-26079 | 1969-09-30

D E C I S I O N 


MAKALINTAL, J.: 

This is an original petition for certiorari and/or prohibition with mandatory preliminary injunction. 

On December 8, 1960 Estanislao Garachico (private respondent in the instant case) and fourteen other members of the police force of the municipality of Naujan, Oriental Mindoro, filed in the Court of First Instance of said province a petition for mandamus, quo warranto, prohibition, and damages, with preliminary injunction (Civil Case No. R-979) against Porfirio Comia, who was then the incumbent municipal mayor of Naujan, and the policemen who had replaced them. They prayed inter alia that...