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Manuel F. Concepcion vs. Jesus V. Agana, et al.

ATTY. MANUEL F. CONCEPCION, petitioner vs. ATTY. JESUS V. AGANA and HON. JUDGE ERASTO SALCEDO RTC Branch 31, Tagum Davao del Norte (Atty. Salcedo), respondents.

A.M. No. RTJ-96-217 | 1997-02-17

D E C I S I O N


HERMOSISIMA, JR., J.:

The complaint, filed on August 5, 1996, seeks the dismissal from the service of respondent judge on account of his dishonest and deceitful conduct when he was a practicing lawyer.

The complainant alleged, among others, that the respondent judge, then Atty. Salcedo, connived with his co-respondent, Atty. Agana, to cause the cancellation of a notice of lis pendens to the prejudice of his clients who had discharged him by then and replaced him with the complainant.

In its report dated September 6, 1996, the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA), made the observation that the instant complaint is a...