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Reyes vs. Subido

JOVENCIO A. REYES, petitioner-appellant, vs. ABELARDO SUBIDO, Commissioner of Civil Service, RUFINO HECHANOVA, Secretary of Finance, MISAEL VERA, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, VICENTE TAGLE, Director, Regional Office No. 5, and ANGEL J, LIWAG, Chief R

G.R. No. L-27916 | 1975-08-21

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

This certiorari proceeding could have been disposed of for being moot and academic as petitioner had resigned his position as examiner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He has not thus far, however, been granted his retirement and terminal benefits allegedly due him after his long stint in the government service, one close to forty years. There is therefore a justifiable insistence on his part that the merits of the controversy be resolved. In brief, the grievance complained of by him is that respondent Commissioner of Civil Service 1 found him guilty of grave misconduct and imposed the penalty of dismissal...