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Pacis vs. Pamaran, et al.

PEDRO PACIS, as Acting Collector of Customs for the Port of Manila, petitioner, vs. MANUEL R. PAMARAN, as Assistant City Fiscal of Manila, and RICARDO SANTOS, respondents.

G.R. No. L-23996 | 1974-03-15

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

For petitioner Pedro Pacis, then Acting Collector of Customs for the Port of Manila, it was vital that this prohibition proceeding against the then Assistant City Fiscal of Manila, Manuel R. Pamaran, should be instituted. For unless restrained, the prosecutor was bent on continuing with the investigation of a charge of usurpation of judicial functions 1 allegedly committed by him, when in the course of his official functions and pursuant thereto, he issued a warrant of seizure and detention for an automobile owned by respondent Ricardo Santos, who, according to the records in his office, had not paid the...