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General Travel Service, Ltd. vs. Edilberto Y. David

GENERAL TRAVEL SERVICE, LTD., petitioner-appellant, vs. EDILBERTO Y. DAVID, personally and as Collector of Customs of the Manila International Airport, respondent-appellee.

G.R. No. L-19259 | 1966-09-23

D E C I S I O N 


MAKALINTAL, J.: 

This is an appeal from the decision of the Court of First Instance of Rizal dismissing the petition for prohibition and mandamus filed by General Travel Service, Ltd., against Edilberto Y. David, in his private capacity and as Collector of Customs at the Manila International Airport. 

The petition alleges: that on August 25, 1961 an SAS plane and a KLM plane from Bangkok arrived at the Manila International Airport bringing, among other things, eight big packages owned by petitioner, a limited partnership duly organized and existing under the laws of the British Crown Colony of Hongkong; that...