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Tomas Lao vs. Leticia Abianda To-Chip, etal.

TOMAS LAO, petitioner, vs. LETICIA ABIANDA TO-CHIP, RAMON TO-CHIP and COURT OF APPEALS, respondents.

G.R. No. 76597 | 1988-02-26

R E S O L U T I O N


FERNAN, J.:

On the basis of private respondent Leticia Abianda To-Chip's letters-complaint addressed to the Land District Officer of the Bureau of Lands, the Supervising Land Examiner of said Bureau filed a complaint against petitioner Tomas Lao with the Provincial Fiscal of Samar for alleged violation of Presidential Decree No. 772, which penalizes squatting and other similar acts. After preliminary investigation, the Provincial Fiscal dismissed the criminal charges for lack of merit.

Alleging that the filing of said complaint publicly put him to shame as he is a business man with a gross annual income of forty...