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Chan Yick Sam Vs. Prosecuting Attorney Of The City Of Mla. 031 Phil 560

CHAN YICK SAM, plaintiff-appellant, vs. THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY OF THE CITY OF MANILA, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. 9166 | 1916-10-01

D E C I S I O N


JOHNSON, J.:

The present was an original action commenced in the Court of First Instance of the city of Manila. Its purpose was to secure a writ of prohibition against the prosecuting attorney of the city of Manila, to prohibit him from making a certain investigation which he had been ordered to make by the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands, which order of the Governor-General was based upon Act No. 2113 of the Philippine Legislature.

It appears from the record that on the 1st of March, 1913, W. H. Bishop, then prosecuting attorney of the city Of Manila, gave to the plaintiff herein a notice in words and...