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Timoteo Bermudez Vs. Court Of First Instance Of Tayabas, Et Al. 036 Phil 360

TIMOTEO BERMUDEZ, petitioner, vs. THE COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE OF TAYABAS, ET AL., respondents.

G.R. No. 12281 | 1917-02-28

D E C I S I O N


TRENT, J.:

This is an original action in the Supreme Court, the object of which is to compel the respondent judge, by mandamus, to reinstate a certain election contest and to proceed with the trial hereof.

The demurrer to the petition having been overruled in a minute order dated November 7, 1916, and the respondents having filed their answer, the case was submitted, after argument, upon the merits. The facts are these:

At the general election held on June 6, 1916, Timoteo Bermudez, Leoncio Sena, and Severino Martinez were opposing candidates for the office of municipal president of Pagbilao, Province of Tayabas. Sena...