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Joaquin,et al vs. Galang,et al.

THE SPOUSES, JOSE YAP JOAQUIN and LAM SOK KAM, petitioners-appellants, vs. HON. EMILIO L. GALANG, THE COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION, respondent-appellee.

G.R. No. L-29132 | 1970-05-29

D E C I S I O N 


REYES, J.B.L., J: 

Appeal to the Court of Appeals but certified to the Supreme Court as a case involving questions purely of law. This appeal was interposed against a decision of the Court of First Instance of Manila, in its Civil Case No. 39025. denying a petition for prohibition against the herein respondent-appellee, Commissioner of Immigration, for ordering the deportation of herein petitioner-appellant Lam Sok Kam. 

The case was submitted for decision before the trial court upon a stipulation of facts. In resum, these facts are as follows: 

On 21 January 1958, petitioner-appellant Lam Sok Kam, a...