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Salao, et al vs. Santos, et al

RUFINA SALAO and Luclo LUCAS, plaintiffs-appellants, vs. TEOFILO C. SANTOS, municipal president of Malabon, Rizal, and ELIGIO GOZON, intervenor, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. 45519 | 1939-04-26

D E C I S I O N


MORAN, J:

The present action was instituted by plaintiffs Rufina Salao and Lucio Lucas, now appellants, to restrain the defendant, Teofilo C. Santos, as municipal president of Malabon, Rizal, from enforcing compliance with his letter of October 22, 1935, wherein said plaintiffs were directed to observe the requirements of ordinance No. 23, series of 1929, of said municipality, on the matter of the operation of their smoked fish factory (umbuyan). The ordinance reads in part as follows:

"ARTICULO 1. Se prohibe terminantemente la fabricacion de toda materia, objeto de industria que requiere el uso de combustible en...