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SRD, et al vs. CE, et al

SULTAN RASUMAN DIPATUAN and HADJI MAMADRA ALAWI, petitioners, vs. THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS, MUNICIPAL BOARD OF CANVASSERS OF BACOLOD GRANDE, MACABOROD BALINDONG and HADJI HASAN ALI DINO API, respondents.

G.R. No. L-34880 | 1972-10-27

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

What petitioners Sultan Rasuman Dipatuan and Hadji Ali Mamadra Alawi, in this certiorari and prohibition proceeding, would have us do is to set aside a resolution of respondent Commission on Elections, dated March 10, 1972, as in their view it did manifest on its face a grave abuse of discretion, there being a marked deviation from the plain and explicit command of well-settled doctrines of this Court. More specifically, notwithstanding the failure of respondent Macaborod Balindong and Hadji Hasan Ali Dino Api 1 to raise an objection before the Municipal Board of Canvassers of Bacolod Grande, Lanao del Sur,...