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Porfirio Villamor sv. Arsenio H. Lacson 120 Phil. 1213

PORFIRIO VILLAMOR, ANGEL DE LA CRUZ, DONATO HALILI, JUAN TAON, PEDRO PRIPOCI, ET AL., petitioners-appellants, vs. THE HON. ARSENIO H. LACSON, HON. JUAN C. PAJO, EMILIO EJERCITO, MARCELINO SARMIENTO and JOSE ERASTAIN, respondents-appellees.

G.R. No. L-15945 | 1964-11-28

D E C I S I O N 


PAREDES, J.: 

Sometime in the month of August, 1956, eleven employees of the Department of Public Services, City of Manila, falling under the unclassified civil service, were administratively charged for violation of office regulations, which prohibited drivers and garbage collectors from gathering and selling empty tin cans, refuse and waste papers, etc. Respondent Arsenio H. Lacson, then mayor, found the petitioners herein guilty of the charge and required them to tender their resignations, within 72 hours after receipt of the decision. Not in conformity with the decision, petitioners brought the matter to the...