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[2/2] PEOPLE vs. Mengote, et al

[2/2] PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. SEVERO MENGOTE and JOSE PAJARES, defendants-appellants.

G.R. No. L-30343 | 1975-07-25

PART 2

Tobacco Administration, 37 where the point in dispute was whether it was respondent Court or a court of first instance that is possessed of competence in a declaratory relief petition for the interpretation of a collective bargaining agreement, one that could readily be thought of as pertaining to the judiciary, the answer was that "unless the law speaks clearly and unequivocally, the choice should fall on the Court of Industrial Relations." 38 Reference to a number of decisions which recognized in the then respondent Court the jurisdiction to determine labor controversies by government-owned or controlled corporations lends to...