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Lianga Bay Logging Co. Inc.vs Manuel Enage

LIANGA BAY LOGGING, CO., INC., petitioner, vs. HON. MANUEL LOPEZ ENAGE, in his capacity as Presiding Judge of Branch II of the Court of First Instance of Agusan and AGO TIMBER CORPORATION, respondents.

G.R. No. L-30637 | 1987-07-16

D E C I S I O N


TEEHANKEE, C.J.:

The Court grants the petition for certiorari and prohibition and holds that respondent judge, absent any showing of grave abuse of discretion, has no competence nor authority to review anew the decision in administrative proceedings of respondents public officials (director of forestry, secretary of agriculture and natural resources and assistant executive secretaries of the Office of the President) in determining the correct boundary line of the licensed timber areas of the contending parties. The Court reaffirms the established principle that findings of fact by an administrative board or agency or...