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Gamelong, et al. vs. Tayson

LUISA GAMELONG, LUIS GAMELONG & PETRONILO GAMELONG, complainants, vs. MUNICIPAL JUDGE SILVESTRE TAYSON, San Enrique, Negros Occidental, respondent.

A.M. No. (11-MJ) 498-MJ | 1974-07-31

D E C I S I O N

ESGUERRA, J:

Respondent Municipal Judge Silvestre Tayson of San Enrique, Negros Occidental was charged in an administrative complaint (Administrative Case No. 88, of the Court of First Instance of Negros Occidental, Branch II, Bacolod City) by Luisa, Luis and Petronilo, all surnamed Gamelong, "with gross ignorance of the law and/or with using his high office of trust as an instrument of illegally ejecting and turning complainants out of their tenancy landholding whom respondent knew fully well to be agrarian tenants and therefore under the protective mantle of the tenancy laws." The complaint was supported by the joint...