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Guttierez, et al vs. Cantada, et al

JOSE GUTIERREZ and ADELAIDA GUTIERREZ, petitioners, vs. ARMANDO CANTADA, CARMELITA C. CANTADA, HON. SANTIAGO O. TA?ADA, Presiding Judge, Court of First Instance, Rizal Branch XXXIII, Caloocan City, respondents.

G.R. No. L-36797 | 1979-05-03

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

The obstacle to the reversal of a decision of respondent Judge Santiago O. Tañada dismissing an ejectment suit against private respondents 1 in this petition far certiorari by way of review comes from police power legislation, the first Republic Act No. 6539 and thereafter Presidential Decree No. 20. They had a common objective to remedy the plight of the lessees, Presidential Decree No. 20, moreover, having a constitutional sanction in that it is specifically referred to in the fundamental law as part of "the law of the land." 2 Under the former statute, actions for ejectment were "suspended from two...