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Catalino Galang Vs. Vicente Miranda 035 Phil 269

CATALINO GALANG, petitioner, vs. VICENTE MIRANDA, judge of first instance of Nueva Ecija, and GONZALO DE LEON, respondents.

G.R. No. 12118 | 1916-11-06

D E C I S I O N


JOHNSON, J.:

This was an original petition presented in the Supreme Court for the writ of mandamus. Its purpose was to obtain the extraordinary legal remedy of mandamus to require the respondent judge to reinstate protest No. 1401, pending in the Court of First Instance of the Province of Nueva Ecija, and to continue to hear the same.

From the record the following facts appear:

First. That on the 13th of June, 1916, the petitioner herein, Catalino Galang, presented a protest in the Court of First Instance of the Province of Nueva Ecija against the election of Gonzalo de Leon, one of the respondents herein, as president...