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Abellana vs. Marave 57 SCRA 106

CRISPIN ABELLANA and FRANCISCO ABELLANA, petitioners, vs. HONORABLE GERONIMO R. MARAVE, Judge, Court of First Instance of Misamis Occidental, Branch II; and GERONIMO CAMPANER, MARCELO LAMASON, MARIA GURREA, PACIENCIOSA FLORES and ESTELITA NEME?O, responde

G.R. No. L-27760 | 1974-05-28

D E C I S I O N

FERNANDO, J:

This petition for certiorari is characterized by a rather vigorous insistence on the part of petitioners Crispin Abellana and Francisco Abellana that an order of respondent Judge was issued with grave abuse of discretion. It is their contention that he ought to have dismissed an independent civil action filed in his court, considering that the plaintiffs, as offended parties, private respondents here, 1 failed to reserve their right to institute it separately in the City Court of Ozamis City, when the criminal case for physical injuries through reckless imprudence was commenced. Such a stand of petitioners was...