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Suerte vs. Ugbinar

ALEJANDRO B. SUERTE, complainant, vs. MUNICIPAL JUDGE MARCIAL G. UGBINAR of Badian, Cebu, respondent.

A.M. No. 88-MJ | 1977-01-25

R E S O L U T I O N

FERNANDO, J:

It is immediately apparent from this administrative action for incompetence and gross ignorance of the law against Marcial G. Ugbinar, then municipal judge of Badian, Cebu, now retired, that complainant Alejandro B. Suerte of the same municipality was motivated either by a strong sense of civic duty or by deep personal animosity. He did rake up acts of respondent Judge, who in 1918 and then again in 1970 allegedly notarized affidavits its immoral and illegal in character. To demonstrate incompetence and gross ignorance, complainant also set forth the assumption of jurisdiction by respondent Judge in 1968...