Back

Tanseco vs. Arteche

ANTONIO TANSECO, petitioner-appellee, vs. PEDRO R. ARTECHE, respondent-appellant.

G.R. No. 36300 | 1932-09-13

D E C I S I O N


STREET, J:

This action of quo warranto was begun on July 10, 1931, by Antonino Tanseco, a voter registered in the list of voters of electoral precinct No. 4 of the municipality of Catbalogan, in the Province of Samar, for the purpose of having the respondent, Pedro R. Arteche, declared ineligible to the office of provincial governor of Samar. Section 408 of the Election Law permits an action of this sort to be begun either before the Court of First Instance of the province or before the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, within two weeks after the proclamation of election of the person whose right to hold the...