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Alfonso Yu, et al. vs. Reynaldo P. Honrado, et al.

ALFONSO YU and SOLEDAD YU, petitioners, vs. HON. JUDGE REYNALDO P. HONRADO, Presiding Judge of the Court of First Instance of Rizal, Branch XXV-Pasig, MARCELO STEEL CORPORATION, Detective CARLOS C. NUESTRO and PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, respondents.

G.R. No. L-50025 | 1980-08-21

D E C I S I O N


AQUINO, J.:

For adjudication in this certiorari prohibition and mandamus case is the possession of about forty-two metric tons of scrap engine blocks (valued at more than forty thousand pesos), part of a stock which Marcelo Steel Corporation sold to an alleged swindler and which scrap iron was allegedly purchased in good faith by the Yu spouses from the swindler but retrieved from the purchasers by Marcelo Steel Corporation by means of a search warrant.

The record shows that on June 27, 1978, Detective Carlos C. Nuestro of the police department of Makati, Metro Manila filed with the Court of First Instance of Rizal,...