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Cantos vs. Styer

TEODORO CANTOS (TEODORO TATISHI), petitioner, vs. WILHELM D. STYER, Commanding General, United States Army Forces, Western Pacific, respondent.

G.R. No. L-492 | 1946-06-28

D E C I S I O N

MORAN, C.J:
This is a petition for habeas corpus filed by petitioner Teodoro Cantos (Teodoro Tatishi) against Lieutenant General Wilhelm D. Styer, Commanding General of the United States Army Forces, Western Pacific, upon the ground that petitioner is a Filipino citizen, residing in Ilang, Davao City, and is now confined by order of the respondent at the residence of the High Commissioner in Manila, Philippines, with no legal cause whatsoever.

Petitioner was born in Davao on December 7, 1913, his father being Japanese and his mother, Filipino. At the age of 27 he elected to become a Filipino citizen under the name of...