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NSWU-P-N-N-P vs. LCSC, et al.

NATIONAL SUGAR WORKERS UNION-PAFLU-NASWU-PAFLU, petitioner, vs. LA CARLOTA SUGAR CENTRAL, HON. EDUARDO ENRIQUEZ, as Judge of the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental, and THE ASSOCIATED LABOR UNION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-23569 | 1972-05-25

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

There is novelty in the specific question to be resolved in this certiorari proceeding, It is whether after a lower court had dismissed for lack of jurisdiction a suit for declaratory relief, on the ground of its being closely interwoven with a pending unfair labor practice case pending with the Court of Industrial Relations, it could still act on a motion for contempt arising from an alleged violation of a preliminary injunction obtained in such terminated suit. The precise query is indeed of first impression. There is though an authoritative principle that does not merely illuminate but points the way. It...