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Borres, Mayor Eulogio E. vs. Mateo Canonoy

MAYOR EULOGIO E. BORRES, petitioner, vs. HON. MATEO CANONOY, Presiding Judge, Court of First Instance of Cebu, Branch III, 14th Judicial District, and SILVERIO PARAGES, respondents.

G.R. No. L-31641 | 1981-10-23

D E C I S I O N


DE CASTRO, J.:

In 1968, herein petitioner Eulogio Borres was then the acting mayor of Cebu City, while private respondent Silverio Parages was a detective in the Cebu Police Department holding such position in a permanent capacity being a civil service eligible. He was assigned to the Homicide and General Investigation Section of the Investigation Branch of said department, particularly to the Missing Persons Section.

On November 14, 1968, acting on verbal complaints that respondent Parages had been molesting Chinese businessmen in Cebu and the fact that his performance was not satisfactory, petitioner Borres issued a...