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Tanada vs. Yulo

JUAN TANADA, petitioner, vs. JOSE YULO, Secretary of Justice, EDUARDO GUTIERREZ DAVID, Judge of First Instance of the Thirteenth Judicial District, and SANTIAGO TA?ADA, Justice of the Peace of Alabat, Tayabas, respondents.

G.R. No. 43575 | 1935-05-31

D E C I S I O N


MALCOLM, J:

For the second time the court is called upon to determine the right of a justice of the peace appointed prior to the approval of Act No. 3899, but who completed sixty-five years of age subsequent to the approval of the Act and to the date, January 1, 1933, specified in the Act, to continue in office. The answer of the Solicitor-General presents two questions, the first predicated on the contention that Act No. 3899 applies to all justices of the peace who reach the age of sixty-five years, and the second on the acceptance of a transfer by the petitioner as denoting a new appointment bringing him within the...