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Salanndanan vs. Tizon, et al

VICENTE SALANDANAN, petitioner, vs. HON. TITO V. TIZON, Judge of the Court of First Instance of Bataan, and ANTUSA M. MAGNO, respondents.

G.R. No. L-30290 | 1975-02-24

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

It was the failure of respondent Judge to accede to the plea of petitioner that a tenancy dispute being involved, the matter was beyond its jurisdiction, certainly an infirmity attended by fatal consequence, that led to the institution of this certiorari proceeding. For to ignore the clear legislative purpose of Congress in creating the Court of Agrarian Relations and vesting it with full competence to pass upon and adjudicate on controversies of such character to the exclusion of ordinary tribunals would be to show less than full respect for the legislative power to create inferior tribunals and delineate...