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Acting Solicitor Gen De La Cruz vs Judge Eisma, RTC, Br 13, Zamboanga City

Acting Solicitor General ROMEO DE LA CRUZ, complainant, vs. JUDGE CARLITO A. EISMA, Regional Trial Court, Branch 13, Zamboanga City, respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-00-1544 | 2000-03-15

D E C I S I O N

MENDOZA, J.:

This is a complaint filed by then Acting Solicitor General Romeo C. de la Cruz against Judge Carlito A. Eisma, Regional Trial Court, Branch 13, Zamboanga City for gross ignorance of the law and manifest bias in favor of a party in a case.

The facts are as follows:

In a decision, dated December 8, 1954, the then Court of First Instance of Zamboanga gave judgment in favor of the Republic of the Philippines for the expropriation of 280,885 square meters of land which now form part of the Zamboanga International Airport. Its decision was subsequently affirmed by this Court in Republic v. Garcellano.1 [103 Phil....