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Andula vs. Lutero

JULIO ANDULA, complainant, vs. JUDGE NICOLAS LUTERO, City Court, Branch I, Iloilo City, respondent.

A.M. No. 679-CJ | 1974-12-10

R E S O L U T I O N

FERNANDEZ, J:

In a verified complaint, dated November 20, 1968, 1 Julio Andula charged City Judge Nicolas Lutero, 2 City Court, Branch I, Iloilo City, for violation of law and misconduct in office.

Complainant alleged that he is one of the plaintiffs in Civil Case No. 4996, filed in 1958, pending before Branch V of the Court of First Instance of Iloilo; that sometime in 1965, respondent, using his influence as a city judge, showed interest in the case and intervened by executing an affidavit which revived the proceedings of the aforecited case; that respondent, in his capacity as a Notary Public Ex Oficio, executed...