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Moy Ya Lim Yao vs. Commissioner of Immigration 41 SCRA 292

MOY YA LIM YAO alias EDILBERTO AGUINALDO LIM and LAU YUEN YEUNG, petitioners-appellants, vs. THE COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION, respondent-appellee.

G.R. No. L-21289 | 1971-10-04

D E C I S I O N

BARREDO, J:

Appeal from the following decision of the Court of First Instance of Manila in its Civil Case No. 49705 entitled Moy Ya Lim Yao, etc., et al. vs. The Commissioner of Immigration which, brief as it is, sufficiently depicts the factual setting of and the fundamental issues involved in this case thus:

"In the instant case, petitioners seek the issuance of a writ of injunction against the Commissioner of Immigration, 'restraining the latter and/or his authorized representative from ordering plaintiff Lau Yuen Yeung to leave the Philippines and causing her arrest and deportation and the confiscation of her...