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Agbayani, et al vs. Sayo, et al

WILSON AGBAYANI, CARMELO BAUTISTA, PABLO PASCUAL and RENATO ROMEO DUGAY, petitioners, vs. HONORABLE SOFRONIO G. SAYO, Presiding Judge of Court of First Instance of Nueva Vizcaya, Branch I, the PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES And CONRADO B. MAHINAN, respondents.

G.R. No. L-47880 | 1979-04-30

D E C I S I O N

AQUINO, J:

This case is about the venue of a criminal action for written defamation. Conrado B. Mahinan, a lawyer, was the manager since September 24, 1973 of the Cagayan Valley Branch of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) stationed at Cauayan, Isabela. Among his subordinates in that branch office were Wilson Agbayani, chief of the investment unit; Carmelo N. Bautista, chief of the production and premium unit; Pablo R. Pascual, officer-in-charge of the legal and claims unit, and Renato Romeo P. Dugay, an employee of the claims unit.

On March 8, 1976, Mahinan filed with the fiscal's office at Bayombong, Nueva...