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Planas vs. Gil

CARMEN PLANAS, petitioner, vs. JOSE GIL, Commissioner of Civil Service, respondent.

G.R. No. 46440 | 1939-01-18

D E C I S I O N


LAUREL, J:

This is an original action of prohibition instituted in this court by which the petitioner seeks to enjoin the respondent Commissioner of Civil Service from conducting the investigation ordered by authority of the President of the Philippines. The case arose as a result of the publication in one of the local dailies of a statement in which the petitioner, then and now a member of the municipal board of the City of Manila, criticized the acts of certain government officials in connection with the general election for Assemblymen held on November 8, 1938. The statement as published in the issue of La Vanguardia...