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Cesar A. Cereno vs. Luis D. Dictado, etal.

CESAR A. CERENO, petitioner, vs. HON. LUIS D. DICTADO, Presiding Judge, Regional Trial Court, Fifth Judicial Region, Branch XXXIX (39) at Daet, Camarines Norte, RAMON B. ASIS and JOB DE VELA, Officer-in-Charge (OIC), Office of the Municipal Mayor, Vinzons, Camarines Norte, respondents.

G.R. No. L-81550 | 1988-04-15

D E C I S I O N


GANCAYCO, J.:

In the herein petition for certiorari, prohibition and mandamus with restraining order, the Court is called upon to set aside an order of the lower court which seeks to restrain petitioner from the performance of the functions of the office of the Municipal Mayor when he appears to have been duly elected and had qualified for said office although thereafter an election protest was filed against him in the same court.

Petitioner Cesar A. Cereno and private respondent Ramon B. Asis were mayoralty candidates for the municipality of Vinzons, Camarines Norte in the local election of January 18, 1988, who were...