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Francisco Saure vs. Prudencio S. Pentecostes, et al.

FRANCISCO SAURE, petitioner, vs. HON. PRUDENCIO S. PENTECOSTES, Municipal Judge of Camiling, Tarlac, DEPUTY SHERIFF VIVENCIO PALANCIO, SPOUSES TELESFORO GALANG and NIEVES GALANG, respondents.

G.R. No. L-46468 | 1981-05-27

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, J:

It is readily discernible from the records of this certiorari and prohibition proceeding why the Citizens Legal Assistance Office of the Ministry of Justice took such pains to nullify and set aside a decision of respondent Municipal Judge Prudencio S. Pentecostes of Camiling, Tarlac 1 ejecting petitioner as lessee from the building owned by private respondents, the spouses Telesforo and Nieves Galang, 2 as well as his order denying a motion for relief from judgment. 3 The point stressed, and rightly so, is that respondent Judge disregarded the plain command of Presidential Decree No. 20 which suspended...