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Bienvenido A. Castillo vs. Jose M. Villarama 122 Phil. 448

BIENVENIDO A. CASTILLO, petitioner, vs. HON. JOSE M. VILLARAMA, personally and as Governor of the Province of Bulacan, and ARSENIO SULIT, as Vice-Mayor of the Municipality of Pulilan, Province of Bulacan, respondents.

G.R. No. L-24649 | 1965-09-18

D E C I S I O N 


MAKALINTAL, J.: 

Upon administrative complaint for oppression and mal-administration filed by Provincial Governor Jose M. Villarama of Bulacan, with a simultaneous order of suspension from office, Municipal Mayor Bienvenido A. Castillo of Pulilan was investigated by the Provincial Board, acquitted of the charge and ordered reinstated. The Governor having refused to recognize the validity of this decision of the Board and its order of reinstatement, and having instructed the Vice-Mayor, Arsenio Sulit, not to relinquish the office of Mayor which he assumed upon Castillo's suspension, the latter initiated the instant...