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Primicias vs. Fugoso [DECISION]

CIPRIANO P. PRIMICIAS, General Campaign Manager of Coalesced Minority Parties, petitioner, vs. VALERIANO E. FUGOSO, Mayor of City of Manila, respondent.

G.R. No. L-1800 | 1948-01-27

FERIA, J.:
 
This is an action of mandamus instituted by the petitioner Cipriano Primicias, a campaign manager of the Coalesced Minority Parties against Valeriano Fugoso, as Mayor of the City of Manila, to compel the latter to issue a permit for the holding of a public meeting at Plaza Miranda on Sunday afternoon, November 16, 1947, for the purpose of petitioning the government for redress to grievances on the ground that the respondent refused to grant such permit. Due to the urgency of the case, this Court, after mature deliberation, issued a writ of mandamus, as prayed for in the petition on November 15, 1947, without prejudice to...