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Ricardo L. Cootauco vs. Court of Appeals etal.

RICARDO L. COOTAUCO, petitioner, vs. THE HON. COURT OF APPEALS, HON. DOMINGO M. ANGELES, Presiding Judge of Branch I, CFI, Camarines Norte, and FELIX L. LUZARRAGA, respondents.

G.R. No. L-56565 | 1988-06-16

D E C I S I O N


GRIá'O-AQUINO, J.:

This is a contest which began in 1980 between two rival cockpit operators for the right to operate in the one-cockpit town of Labo, Camarines Norte, whose population does not exceed 100,000 residents. The temporary restraining order (later replaced by a writ of preliminary injunction) which the trial court issued, and which the Court of Appeals declined to set aside, is before Us for determination.

The petitioner, Ricardo L. Cootauco, is a duly licensed operator of a cockpit, known as "Gallera Lapu-Lapu" in Labo, Camarines Norte. In 1979 he built another cockpit in the new recreational zone in Bo....