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Protasio Santos Vs. Vicente Miranda, Et Al 035 Phil 643

PROTASIO SANTOS, petitioner, vs. VICENTE MIRANDA, judge of the Court of First Instance of the Province of Tarlac, and GREGORIO CLEMENTE, respondents.

G.R. No. 12235 | 1916-12-08

D E C I S I O N


JOHNSON, J.:

This is an original petition presented in the Supreme Court for the writ of prohibition. Its purpose is to prohibit the respondent judge from proceeding with the hearing of a certain election contest, pending in the Court of First Instance of the Province of Tarlac, in which the petitioner herein is the protestee and the respondent herein, Gregorio Clemente, is the protestant.

The facts upon which the remedy prayed for is based may be stated as follows:

First. That on the 6th of June, 1916, an election was held in the municipality of Camiling, Province of Tarlac, for the purpose of electing a president and...