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Esther Montemayor vs. Francisco Collado

ESTHER MONTEMAYOR, petitioner, vs. JUDGE FRANCISCO COLLADO, respondent.

A.M. No. 2519-MJ | 1981-09-10

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, J.:

Municipal Judge Francisco Collado of San Fernando, La Union is charged administratively for his unjust refusal to deposit with the Municipal Treasurer of the same municipality the amount of P42,000.00 representing the accrued rentals deposited by the defendant in an ejectment case pending in his court.

The administrative case was misfiled with the Court of First Instance of La Union instead of with this Court. The Court Administrator Lorenzo Relova, upon the Court's being furnished with a copy of the charges by complainant, and seeing the seriousness of the charges, forthwith sent a telegram to Executive...