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Sere?es, et al vs. Frias, et al

ANDRES M. SE?ERES, in his capacity as Collector of Customs for the Port of Iloilo, GIL B. ARMADA, in his capacity as Acting Deputy Collector of Customs for the Port of Iloilo, and IRENEO HORTILLOSA, in his capacity as Wharfinger for the Port of Iloilo, pe

G.R. Nos. L-32921-40 | 1971-06-10

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, J:
Original action for certiorari and prohibition challenging the jurisdiction of respondent judge of the Court of First Instance of Iloilo to take cognizance of twenty separate petitions for mandamus with preliminary mandatory injunction filed by private respondents and to issue orders for the release from customs custody of forty crates of imported articles described to be used sheet containers and used sample wood panels and other similar articles but reported upon customs examination to be parts of slot and jackpot machines.

The twenty pairs of respondents, totalling forty of them all with given addresses...