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In Re: Thomas Toye Patterson

In the matter of the application of THOMAS TOYE PATTERSON for a writ of habeas corpus.

G.R. No. 536 | 1902-01-23

D E C I S I O N


ARELLANO, C.J.:

The 15th day of October, 1901, Act 265 of the Legislative Commission of the Philippines was promulgated; about the 23d of November following a British subject, Thomas Toye Patterson, arrived at the port of Manila from abroad on board the steamer Yuensang. It appeared in the course of these proceedings that Patterson was a justice of the peace under the Australian Government, and had not lost his official character notwithstanding his residence of ten months in the United States, from whence he had gone to the British colony of Hongkong, and from the latter point proceeded to the port of Manila. Upon being...