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Ciriaco Landa vs. Francisco Tobias, Et Al.

CIRIACO LANDA, plaintiff-appellant, vs. FRANCISCO TOBIAS, Municipal Mayor: EMILIANO DEL CAMPO, Municipal Treasurer; REGIO B. SUBONG, Chief of Police; JUANITO PECATE and JUANITO ALFARO, Municipal Policemen, Cabatuan, Iloilo, defendants-appellees.

G.R. No. L-24490 | 1968-05-29

D E C I S I O N 


CONCEPCION, J.: 

From an order of the Court of First Instance of Iloilo dismissing the complaint in this case, plaintiff has come directly to the Supreme Court, upon the ground that only questions of law would be raised in the appeal. 

On June 23, 1962, defendants Juanito Pecate and Juanito Alfaro, members of the police force of Cabatuan, Iloilo, purporting to act pursuant to section 538 of the Revised Administrative Code, seized from plaintiff Ciriaco Landa a carabao, for which he produced a certificate of ownership in the name of Pantaleon Elvas. Said peace officers turned the carabao over to the municipal...