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Yarcia vs. City Baguio

ROMULO A. YARCIA, plaintiff-appellant, vs. CITY OF BAGUIO, Represented by: The City Council and The City Mayor, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-27562 | 1970-05-29

D E C I S I O N 


TEEHANKEE, J: 

Direct appeal on a question of law from the Court of First Instance of Baguio City. We uphold the trial court's dismissal of plaintiff-appellant's complaint for payment of back pay, since his removal from office during the period in question was validly effected in pursuance of the Civil Service Commissioner's decision of dismissal, which was ordered to be immediately executed in the public interest, pending appeal. The Civil Service Board of Appeals' subsequent decision affirming the finding of guilt but modifying the penalty to a six-months' pay fine in lieu of dismissal from the service entitled...