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Tiro, Aurelio vs. Agapito Hontanosas, et al.

AURELIO TIRO, as City Superintendent of Schools of Cebu City, petitioner-appellant, vs. HORABLE AGAPITO HONTANOSAS, Judge of the Court of First Instance of Cebu, Branch XI, ZAFRA FINANCING ENTERPRISE and MARCELINO ZAFRA, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-32312 | 1983-11-25

D E C I S I O N


ABAD SANTOS, J.:

In Civil Case No. 11616 of the defunct Court of First Instance of Cebu, Zafra Financing Enterprise sued Aurelio Tiro in his official capacity as Superintendent of Schools in Cebu City. It appears that Zafra had extend loans to public school teachers in Cebu City and the teachers concerned executed promissory notes and special powers of attorney in favor of Zafra to take and collect their salary checks from the Division Office in Cebu City of the Bureau of Public Schools. However, Tiro forbade the collection of the checks on the basis of Circular No. 21, series 1969, dated December 5, 1969, of the...