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Director of Forestry, et al. vs. Mariano V. Benedict

THE DIRECTOR OF FORESTRY, HON. TEOFILO SANTOS and THE DISTRICT FORESTER, MR. AMBROCIO JUINIO, petitioners, vs. JUDGE MARIANO V. BENEDICTO, Presiding Judge of Branch V, Court of First Instance of Nueva Ecija and THE NEW TIMBERLAND CORPORATION, represented by NICANOR ABES, respondents.

G.R. No. L-29956 | 1981-05-05

D E C I S I O N


FERNANDO, C.J:

Reliance by the Director of Forestry 1 on the leading case of Director of Forestry v. Muñoz, 2 in this appeal by certiorari from a decision of the then Judge Mariano V. Benedicto, now deceased, declaring that 417 pieces of logs in General Tinio, Nueva Ecija, had been legally cut by private respondent New Timberland Corporation, but ordering it to pay to the government the amount of P711.07 still due from his forest charges or fees, and to refrain from cutting any log in its concession as its license had in the meanwhile been cancelled by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, is more...